The human capacity for rational thinking makes us unique among the animal kingdom, according to wise, old Aristotle. However, ...

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With an open mind, Goodall discovered that chimpanzees produce tools, form lasting social bonds, and pass on knowledge across ...

Chimpanzees change their choices when stronger clues appear and stay the course when only weaker hints came in.

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

New research suggests chimpanzees can rethink their choices when new evidence emerges, a hallmark of human-like reasoning. Credit: Shutterstock A new study published in Science shows that chimpanzees ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited Earth twice before ...

A chimpanzee got loose inside the Indianapolis Zoo on Friday. According to CBS4 in Indianapolis, guests were asked to head back to their cars or shelter in secure locations.An Indianapolis Fire ...

Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes, according to the ...