UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving our brain growth and facial flattening. By comparing 3D models of ape skulls ...

We see different angles of a skull against a black background. An ape fossil found in Turkey may controversially suggest that the ancestors of African apes and humans first evolved in Europe before ...

Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa and Asia. Apes have shown resilience to these disruptions by adapting ...

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrate for the first time that apes can ...

From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create language. Now, it’s been suggested that humans can also understand sign language used by ...

Apes share the human ability to imagine, suggests new research. A series of tea party-like experiments are the first study to ...

The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during the ...

Great apes aren't so different from humans when it comes to certain social interactions, they too enjoy making funny faces, poking one another, randomly pulling hair and other forms of teasing, ...

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