On the genetic level, we're not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in dna can have massive effects.

As scientists have studied the chimpanzee, they’ve found more and more similarities between humans and their closest living relatives. But when it comes to the courts, chimps and humans couldn’t be ...

SEATTLE, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- For years, the public has been told that human beings and chimpanzees are, in genetic terms, only "1 percent" different. But according to Discovery Institute ...

One percent might not seem like a lot, but in human evolution, it’s all that genetically separates humans from chimpanzees. Scientists have long pondered how a 1% genetic difference could be so ...

Lucy the Chimpanzee’s story is an animal rights nightmare. As told in the new documentary Lucy the Human Chimp, psychologist Maurice Temerlin and his wife, Jane, bought the fuzzy primate from a ...

In a 2025 study published titled ‘Human monogamy in mammalian context’, Dr Mark Dyble examined the mating behaviour of 35 ...

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK, Uganda (AP) — The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go — except up in the trees. Onesmas Ainebyona stalks the ...

(AP) - Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered “persons” with human rights, according to the state’s Court of Appeals. That means the owners of the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula will ...

Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even removing others from snares left by human hunters, new research suggests.