Well, not now – but a paper published in Genome Biology in 2006 concluded that after humans and chimpanzees cleaved from each other around 6 million years ago, they continued to interbreed for at ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Recent research shows that human evolution followed a braided pattern rather than a simple family tree. Fossils and ancient DNA reveal repeated hybridization between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and ...

For these females, the strength of their maternal programming – rather than any inherent understanding of the nature of death ...

Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social bonds. A new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University ...

Fossil and genetic evidence shows that ancient human species frequently interbred. Studies of skeletal traits and DNA reveal a complex, braided evolutionary history that shaped modern human diversity ...

Between 1998 and 2009, John Mitani witnessed 18 murders firsthand, and found circumstantial evidence for three more. But no police were ever called, for these killers were all chimpanzees, from the ...

Adolescents are known for risky behavior, with teenagers in the U.S. more likely than younger children to die from injury. But what's responsible for this uptick in risk-taking around puberty? Our new ...

Johnny Sequoyah, Troy Kotsur and a dude in a monkey suit star in Johannes Roberts’ creature feature about a secluded tropical vacation that goes bananas. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic If you spent ...

A new report finds thousands of African primates, including chimpanzees and gorillas, are being traded both legally and illegally. Most of the legal trade in great apes is for scientific and zoo ...

For a movie of exceeding simplicity, Primate manages to encapsulate more or less the entire deal of horror filmmaker Johannes Roberts in a single compact creature feature. Roberts isn’t even as big a ...

A young woman who lived nearly two millennia ago along the southern coast of England has been the center of scientific ...