Two extinct hominins, Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus, were significantly more dimorphic than chimpanzees and modern humans;...
Primatologists have documented and analyzed both previously reported and newly observed instances of self-directed and other-directed wound care, snare...
Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can...
The decision to urinate involves a complex combination of both physiological and social considerations. However, the social dimensions of urination remain...
Human cognitive performance can be significantly influenced by the presence of audience members. While often associated with reputation management, which...
Was the ancestor of all primates a solitary-living species? Did more social forms of primate societies evolve from this basic and simple society? Until...
While human social memory lasts decades and tracks relationships, less is known about non-human ape long-term memory. In a new paper published in the Proceedings...
Early humans and apes likely evolved free-moving shoulders and flexible elbows to slow their descent from trees as gravity pulled on their heavier bodies,...
Digging wells to access or filter drinking water is a relatively rare behavior in the animal kingdom — only a handful of species have been documented...
In a new paper published this week in the journal Current Biology, University of Osnabrück’s Dr. Simone Pika and colleagues report the first observations...
The oral microbiome plays key roles in human biology, health, and disease, but little is known about the global diversity, variation, or evolution of this...
Understanding the origins of the human lineage (hominins) requires reconstructing the morphology, behavior, and environment of the chimpanzee-human last...
Paleoanthropologists from the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, and South Africa have examined the fossilized hand of Ardipithecus ramidus, a...
By 4 months of age, the cognitive performance of common ravens (Corvus corax) in experimental tasks is similar to those of two great ape species, chimpanzees...
In a new study, published this week in the journal Science Advances, apes and monkeys were able to track relationships between sounds the same way as humans,...
The male-specific Y chromosome plays a critical role in sex determination and male fertility. However, because of its repetitive nature, it is frequently...
A team of researchers in the UK has discovered that some individuals of the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), particularly those affected by myocardial...
An international team of researchers led by Newcastle University Medical School has discovered an earlier evolutionary origin to the human language pathway...
