Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us ...

Humans walk heel-first far more consistently than chimpanzees, a strategy that may have helped our ancestors travel farther ...

The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned ...

Discover the extraordinary story of Oliver, a chimpanzee with striking humanlike traits that raised questions about evolution. Captured in the 1950s, Oliver's unique characteristics led to speculation ...

Some people might think that human bones have become stronger through evolution. Walking on two legs, supporting a large ...

To find out what people gain from that consistent stride, the researchers asked human volunteers to try walking more like ...

Strong fists for defending ourselves and opposable thumbs for work as fine as threading a needle — hand specialisation is widely believed to have given humans a major evolutionary advantage. On ...

When Aristotle claimed that humans differ from other animals because they have the ability to be rational, he understood rational to mean that we could form our views and beliefs based on evidence, ...

The curious minds at What If reveal the truth about human and chimpanzee evolution, comparing genomes, behavior, and evolutionary divergence. Should you shut down your PC every night? Here's what it ...

When given a choice between cooperating or competing, chimpanzees choose to cooperate five times more frequently, Yerkes National Primate Research Center researchers have found. This, the researchers ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers sometimes continue to carry their infants after they have died, a behavior known as infant ...