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’s not unusual for chimpanzees to fight. Chimpanzee society is naturally aggressive and even violent. However, visitors at ...

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

Some male chimpanzees use covert physical gestures to sneakily solicit sex. According to a new study, these mating moves vary ...

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 ...

While humans might attempt to rizz someone up with a terrible chat-up line, male chimpanzees have other ways to attract the attention of females. This includes auditory gestures, which means making a ...

New research seems to suggest bonobos could possess some form of theory of mind. But there's a bit more to it than that.

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

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

In 1999, 600 students packed the Boyd Auditorium to hear UT professor Tim Rowe presented a bold hypothesis: dinosaurs never ...

"This finding provides evidence that human illegal activities have altered the cultural behavior of chimpanzees," says Roman Wittig of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and the Max Planck ...