New research shows bonobos and chimpanzees comfort others at similar rates, challenging old beliefs about ape empathy.

Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos ...

A molecular adaptation that greatly increased ethanol metabolism in the common ancestor of African apes was recently ...

The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent identical ... back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion years ago. And the evolutionary view of a single (and ...

Remote cameras in Africa have captured the first images and video of wild chimpanzees eating and sharing fermented fruit that ...

The primates’ use of complex compositionality also suggests that certain components of human communication are old, tracing back to the last common ancestor between humans and bonobos. “Our study, ...

For the first time known to scientists, a team has documented chimps ... among humans, suggesting that alcohol consumption may have provided an evolutionary benefit for the common ancestor of ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, observed the behaviour of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos were more likely than chimpanzees ... our last common ancestor likely ...