Before meat came fruit: The human brain evolved millions of years ago thanks to sugar | Science
At first, we mainly ate fruit. Or rather, the most recent relative we share with our closest cousins,…
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…
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…
Scientists Found That Humans Unconsciously Mimic the Facial Expressions of Monkeys and Apes
A monkey looking in a mirror. Image credits: Andre Mouton/Pexels Imagine watching a video of a chimpanzee. The…
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says US President Donald Trump should apologise over ‘racist’ clip depicting Obamas as monkeys
Luxon told TVNZ’s Breakfast he thought Trump should recognise his mistake. Asked if an apology was in order…
‘Wasteful monkey business’ – US medical agency will scale back testing on primates
Zaher Nahle, a former animal researcher who is now the senior scientific adviser for the non-profit Centre for…
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A century and a half ago, Frederick Engels, in an unpublished 1876 essay titled, The Part Played by Labor…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…
Chimpanzees drink the equivalent of two or three beers a day, study says | Science
The human attraction to alcoholic beverages could be, to a large extent, inherited from our primate ancestors. And…