A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

The results were telling. Plants selected by chimpanzees to make tools were significantly more flexible — on average, 175% ...

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savannah habitats. Some of the ...

Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

a highly unknown aspect of human technological evolution. Certain plant species, such as Grewia spp., constitute tool material for termite-fishing chimpanzee communities living up to 5,000 ...

Researchers have widely accepted that what sets humans apart from nonhuman primates are prefrontal cortex–driven behaviors ...