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Plants & Animals Feb 13, 2024

Study sheds new light on behavior of humans' closest relatives: Chimpanzees

A study by University of Stirling researchers has shed new light on the behavior of the closest living relatives of humans—chimpanzees. Researchers in the Division of Psychology found that chimpanzees will deploy strategies ...

Evolution Jan 17, 2024

Predicting others' preference-based choices is cross-cultural and uniquely human, suggests study

Children across cultures can anticipate other individuals' choices based on their preferences, according to a study published in PLOS ONE by Juliane Kaminski at the University of Portsmouth and colleagues. However, non-human ...

Evolution Jan 15, 2024

Comparative genome study of humans and great apes provides insight into development of gut microbiome

An important question in modern life science and medical research is how the microorganisms living in and on a body influence the life processes and thus health and disease of the host organism. Scientists assume that there ...

Paleontology & Fossils Jan 14, 2024

The largest great ape to ever live went extinct because of climate change, study finds

An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction hundreds of thousands of years ago when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons, scientists reported Wednesday.

Evolution Jan 3, 2024

Early primates likely lived in pairs, research suggests

Primate social organization is more flexible than previously assumed. According to a new study led by University of Zurich, the first primates probably lived in pairs, while only around 15% of individuals were solitary.

Plants & Animals Dec 20, 2023

New larks revealed in Africa

Researchers at Uppsala University, together with colleagues at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the University of Gothenburg, and institutions in seven other countries, have studied the relationships between five closely ...

Plants & Animals Dec 19, 2023

Can we decode the language of our primate cousins?

A UNIGE team shows that the human brain is capable of identifying the vocalizations of certain primate species, if they are close to us and if the frequencies used are also close to our own.

Plants & Animals Dec 18, 2023

Chimps and bonobos can recognize long-lost friends and family for decades, find researchers

Researchers led by a University of California, Berkeley, comparative psychologist have found that great apes and chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, can recognize groupmates they haven't seen in over two decades—evidence ...

Archaeology Dec 8, 2023

Study suggests climate played a crucial role in human migration from Africa

About 6 million years ago, in the deep forests of eastern Africa, something spectacular happened. Chimpanzees, our closest relative in the animal kingdom, evolved in one direction, while our earliest ancestors continued in ...

Evolution Dec 7, 2023

Avian supergene study explores the evolutionary paradox behind the unusual mating strategies of the ruff

In the colorful world of avian courtship, the ruff (Calidris pugnax) is in a league of its own. Breeding in marshes and wet meadows across Eurasia, the males of this medium-sized sandpiper species are well-known for their ...

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