“The majority of palaeoanthropologists tend to assume that the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans looked like a chimpanzee,” said anatomical scientist Sergio Almecija of the Stony ...

This practice is similar to that of early human ancestors such as Oldowan hominins, which shares common evolutionary origins in tool making. The study also noticed younger chimps learning from ...

Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor ...

There has been an appealing suggestion that the roots of human altruism extend down at least as far as our common ancestor with chimpanzees. However, the results of this study challenges that view.

Studying contagious urination could help scientists understand the behavior of humans' common ancestors with chimpanzees, and the origin of the social custom in humans, Onishi said." ...

The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent ... back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion years ago. And the evolutionary view of a single (and very ancient ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...

A recent study shed new light on the evolution of tool use, revealing striking similarities between modern chimpanzees and ancient human ancestors in their selection of stone tools. The results of ...

modern humans – Homo sapiens – did not evolve directly from the apes alive today, but rather we share a common ancestor. Our evolutionary paths diverged from those of chimpanzees and gorillas ...