Wild Calls of Bonobo Apes Sound Simple, but Scientists Find Striking Similarities With Human Language The evolution of human ...

A peep from a bonobo is believed to mean roughly “I would like to…” and a whistle is believed to mean “let’s stay together.” But when combined to make a “peep-whistle,” it’s thought to mean something ...

In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.

Changes from an ape-like anatomy are discernible in hominoid fossils from the late Miocene in Africa. Some hominoid species from this period exhibit traits that are typical of humans but are not ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike ... Like all creatures, no two individual hominids were alike.

The macaque monkey is the non-human primate best known to science. Comparing the human brain to both species meant we could not only assess ... occurred in apes, followed by changes in temporal ...