Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

A new study shows a bonobo can track pretend juice and grapes, suggesting apes also have imagination, not only humans.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking.

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to change their behavior, a new study shows. Researchers from Johns Hopkins ...

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during the ...

In her landmark book, The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters, Dr. Christine Webb makes clear that the notion that we're the most important show in town—smarter than, ...