A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, culture and the meaning of sharing a language ...

It is a pity that this book disparages the exciting recent scientific advances in evolution and human genetics ... of the ancestors of humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, and the much earlier split ...

The secrets of human brain evolution are beginning to be unveiled thanks to a recent study. Researchers have explored key ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Researchers from the Taï Chimpanzee Project observed members of the four neighbouring communities ... although all males in the North group used this gesture before 2004," describes Liran Samuni of ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Unlike the chimpanzees and gorillas passively consuming ... Oftentimes in human evolution, scientists only focus on the ‘typical’ or most common condition for individuals.

For millennia, the western chimpanzees of Taï National Park in Ivory Coast have communicated with each other in a dialect of ...

We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time period known as the Miocene, just before our lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees and bonobos.