Monkeys sometimes have ‘pets’ like humans
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Chimpanzees Keep Throwing Stones at the Same Trees – Scientists Want To Know Why
Accumulative stone throwing is a rare, potentially cultural, behavior that has been observed among four groups of wild…
Study suggests apes and humans shared same laugh for 15 million years – KTEN
Study suggests apes and humans shared same laugh for 15 million years KTENRhythm and timing in laughter reveal that…
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates…
Why Are Humans The Only Animals That Cook Their Food? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning…
Early Release – Strongyloides Genetic Diversity among Humans, Dogs, and Nonhuman Primates, Central African Republic, 2016–2022 – Volume 32, Number 3—March 2026 – Emerging Infectious Diseases journal
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Apes Were Kissing Millions of Years Before Humans, Study Suggests
While kissing might feel like one of the most natural things in the world, this familiar behavior is…
Manual dexterity and the human brain evolved together
A century and a half ago, Frederick Engels, in an unpublished 1876 essay titled, The Part Played by Labor…
New Study Shatters Long-Standing Myths About Primate Origins
The first primates were about the size of a mouse lemur: tiny. Credit: Jason Gilchrist Primates originated in…