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By tracking brain activity as primates move freely in the wild, neuroethology could reshape what we think we know about our own minds.
His career helped define humanity’s place in the world by bringing us “a little closer” to our ape relatives.
CRISPR study helps answer a question that has long puzzled scientists.
Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.
The structure is fully developed in humans, partially developed in chimps, and completely absent in Old World monkeys.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
The ability is tied to mental health, consciousness, and memory in humans.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
John Templeton Foundation
Many animals practice what looks like self-medication. A new report suggests that chimps tend wounds with insects, often treating each other.
Choking under pressure seems to have deep evolutionary roots.
From 1974 to 1978, the chimps of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania were at war with each other, the first time conservationists saw chimps engage in calculated, cold-blooded killing.
Bears, chimps, or humans? A track of five poorly preserved footsteps at Laetoli has puzzled paleontologists for decades. Now, a research paper from Nature claims to have solved the mystery.