A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, has discovered that ...

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

Understanding the ways humans and animals organize and execute complex sequences of behavior sheds light on the evolution of ...

The Conversation revealed its findings last month as part of the Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee, sharing that evidence shows different populations of chimpanzees "have evolved genetic ...

A study has found that young chimpanzees develop distinct population-specific vocal patterns as they mature (ontogeny), ...

A study by Queen Mary University of London finds that young chimpanzees develop dialect, providing a new way of understanding ontogenetic evolution.A ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Some chimpanzees in West Africa repeatedly throw rocks at particular trees, creating piles of stones that can remain in use ...