Amid this controversy, Russian biologist Ilya Ivanov set out in the mid-1920s to crossbreed humans and chimpanzees. Ivanov ...

Learn how video footage of monkeys in West Africa has unlocked new answers in the debate over the last common ancestor of ...

New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, ...

The researchers pointed out that the chimps tested in the study are used to contact with humans and familiar with objects not found in the natural world, so future experiments should be carried out ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University and Universidad Carlos III de ...

Two chimpanzees sit in the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda, where the study took place. Merryjack via Flickr under CC BY-SA 4.0 Whether you realize it or not, you spend a large chunk of ...

Chimps share many traits that we consider to be uniquely human, but now a new study suggests that the menopause really does set humans apart from other apes. A detailed look at long-term fertility ...

WE’RE getting used to chimps doing things we once considered unique to humans. Now one human feature that really distinguishes us from other apes has been identified: the menopause. A comparison of ...