A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

Apes can tell when humans lack knowledge. They help by pointing to hidden treats. This suggests they understand others' ...

Early apes to 'hominization' (around 35m to 8m years ago) The story of human evolution usually starts at the point our distant ancestors began to separate from the apes, whose own ancestors are ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

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

29, 2024 — A new study, which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecus ... Dishing the Dirt on Human Evolution: Why Scientific Techniques Matter ...

The incredible story of human evolution comes to life through the latest ... Hosted by Walter Cronkite, and filmed on location in Africa, APE MAN traces the rise of mankind in four exciting ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...