Dartmouth researchers investigate tree-climbing behavior of modern hunter-gatherers to elucidate our fossil ancestors' terrestrial versus arboreal preferences.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 31, 2012 4.7 / 5 (13) 4 |

Chimpanzees and orangutans can experience a midlife crisis just like humans, a study suggests.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 19, 2012 4 / 5 (6) 20 |

(Phys.org)—Researchers from the Max Planck institute have been conducting experiments with chimpanzees that appear to indicate that the apes are not willing to punish other chimps when witnessing them doing ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 28, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 5 |

The assembly of the gorilla genome was announced today, March 7, by a multi-national group of researchers. The gorilla is the last genus of the living great apes to have its genome decoded. While confirming ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 07, 2012 5 / 5 (14) 8 |

The first evidence of empathy-driven helping behavior in rodents has been observed in laboratory rats that repeatedly free companions from a restraint, according to a new study by University of Chicago neuroscientists.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 08, 2011 4.9 / 5 (8) 8 |

Elephants quickly learn to lend each other a helping hand - ah, make that a helping trunk.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 07, 2011 4.9 / 5 (10) 4

Among great apes, orangutans are humans' most distant cousins. These tree dwellers sport a coat of fine reddish hair and have long been endangered in their native habitats in the rainforests of Sumatra and ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 26, 2011 4.7 / 5 (11) 3 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists report having observed and filmed bonobos (also known as pygmy chimpanzees) shaking their heads to say “no” to prevent an unwanted behavior in another animal. Bonobos have never ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 07, 2010 4.9 / 5 (11) 9 |

orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas - realize that they can be wrong when making choices, according to Dr. Josep Call from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 24, 2010 4.5 / 5 (8) 18 |

Humans, other great apes and bears are among the few animals that step first on the heel when walking, and then roll onto the ball of the foot and toes. Now, a University of Utah study shows the advantage: ...

Biology - Other

Feb 12, 2010 4 / 5 (2) 4 |

The same evolutionary genetic advantages that have helped increase human lifespans also make us uniquely susceptible to diseases of aging such as cancer, heart disease and dementia, reveals a study to be published in a special ...

Biology - Evolution

Jan 26, 2010 4.6 / 5 (11) 2 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- The timing of molar emergence and its relation to growth and reproduction in apes is being reported by two scientists at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins in the Dec. 28 ...

Biology - Evolution

Dec 28, 2009 3 / 5 (3) 0

A detailed examination of the wrist bones of several primate species challenges the notion that humans evolved their two-legged upright walking style from a knuckle-walking ancestor.

Biology - Evolution

Aug 10, 2009 4.2 / 5 (13) 9

In Aesop's fable 'The crow and the pitcher' a thirsty crow uses stones to raise the level of water in a pitcher to quench its thirst. A new study published online today (06 August) in the journal Current Bi ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 06, 2009 4.8 / 5 (22) 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 47-million-year-old primate fossil, a purported "missing link" between primates and humans, was unveiled this week in New York. The fossil, formally called Darwinius masillae but nicknamed ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 19, 2009 4.8 / 5 (13) 2