• Roads, Pet Dogs and More May Pose Hidden Threat to Africa's Primates

• Humans Can Recognize and Understand Chimpanzee and Bonobo Gestures, Study Finds

• Young Chimpanzees and Human Teens Share Risk-Taking Behaviors

• Orangutan Communication Sheds Light on Human Speech Origins

• Extinct 'monkey Lemur' Shows Similarities to Fossil Humans

• Human Evolution Wasn't Just the Sheet Music, but How It Was Played

• Evidence for Intentional Communication in Female Putty-Nosed Monkeys

• Showing Off: Wild Chimpanzees Show Others Objects Simply to Share Attention

• Differences Between Brains of Primates Are Small but Significant, Study Shows

• Just Like Humans, More Intelligent Jays Have Greater Self-Control

• Large Numbers of European Chimpanzees Suffer from a Lack of Vitamin D, Says New Study

• Chimpanzees Synchronize Their Steps Just Like Humans
• Chew on This: Personalized Health Care for Mountain Gorillas

• Evidence of Social Relationships Between Chimpanzees, Gorillas

• Chimpanzee Stone Tool Diversity

• Early Gibbon Fossil Found in Southwest China: Discovery Fills Evolutionary History Gap of Apes

• The Gene to Which We Owe Our Big Brain

• Scientists Study Tourists to Protect Great Apes

• Dolphins Form Largest Alliance Network Outside Humans, Study Finds

• Cameras Candidly Capture Bushmeat Mammals to Avert Crisis

• What Makes the Human Brain Different? Study Reveals Clues

• Simplified Voice Box Enriches Human Speech

• Study Links Protecting Indigenous Peoples' Lands to Greater Nonhuman Primate Biodiversity

• These Baboons Borrowed a Third of Their Genes from Their Cousins

• Communication Makes Hunting Easier for Chimpanzees

• Carbon Conservation Efforts Would Be Enhanced by Highlighting Threatened Forest Primates

• Connectivity of Language Areas Unique in the Human Brain

• How Humans Evolved to Get Along (to Extent That We Do)

• What Oxytocin Can Tell Us About the Evolution of Human Prosociality

• Researchers Design a Method to Pinpoint the Origin of Illegally Traded Chimpanzees

• Some Monkeys Might Pull a Poker Face

• Chimpanzees Combine Calls to Form Numerous Vocal Sequences

• Human Fetuses Evolved to Slow Shoulder Growth for Easier Delivery

• Chimpanzees Show Signs of Recognition Toward Skulls of Their Own Species

• Century-Old Malaria Parasite Puzzle Solved as Ape Origin Traced

• Monkeys Routinely Consume Fruit Containing Alcohol, Shedding Light on Our Own Taste for Booze

• Ape 'vocabularies' Shaped by Social Mingling — Like in Humans

• New Study Sheds Light on Early Human Hair Evolution

• Student Researchers Discover Genes Unique to Humans in Search for Source of Our Evolutionary Distinctiveness

• Female Chimpanzees Avoid Humans

• Orangutans Instinctively Use Hammers to Strike and Sharp Stones to Cut, Study Finds

• Chimpanzee Mother Seen Applying an Insect to a Wound on Her Son

• Cracking Chimpanzee Culture

• Risky Food-Finding Strategy Could Be the Key to Human Success

• Anthropologists Study the Energetics of Uniquely Human Subsistence Strategies

• Tooth Cavities Provide Unique Ecological Insight Into Living Primates and Fossil Humans

• Orangutan Mothers Help Offspring to Learn

• Primates Vs Cobras: How Our Last Common Ancestor Built Venom Resistance

• Diversity of the Gut Microbiome in Gorillas

• Ancient Human Relative, Australopithecus Sediba, 'walked Like a Human, but Climbed Like an Ape'

• What Big Teeth You Have: Tooth Root Surface Area Can Determine Primate Size

• Africa-Wide Great Ape Assessment Reveals Human Activity, Not Habitat Availability, Is Greatest Driver of Ape Abundance

• Savannah Chimpanzees, a Model for the Understanding of Human Evolution

• Leprosy Confirmed in Wild Chimpanzees

• Gorillas Can Tell Human Voices Apart

• What Makes Us Human? The Answer May Be Found in Overlooked DNA

• A Study of Skull Growth and Tooth Emergence Reveals That Timing Is Everything

• Great Apes' Consonant and Vowel-Like Sounds Travel Over Distance Without Losing Meaning

• If Endangered Primates Disappear, So Will Their Parasites. That's Actually a Problem

• Roads Have Far-Reaching Impact on Chimpanzees

• Primate Mothers May Carry Infants After Death as a Way of Grieving, Study Finds

• To Understand Future Habitat Needs for Chimpanzees, Look to the Past

• Building Bonds Between Males Leads to More Offspring for Chimpanzees
• Western Chimpanzees Are Threatened by Lack of Regulated Human Development

• Like Humans, Apes Communicate to Start and End Social Interactions

• More Tolerant Primates Have a Greater Need to Communicate Vocally, New Study Shows

• Wild Chimpanzee Orphans Recover from the Stress of Losing Their Mother

• We Cannot Cheat Aging and Death, Study Indicates

• Hope for Critically Endangered Gorillas in Eastern DRC

• African Great Apes to Suffer Massive Range Loss in Next 30 Years

• Conservation Success Leads to New Challenges for Endangered Mountain Gorillas

• Young Orangutans Have Sex-Specific Role Models
• A Stressful Life in the City Affects Birds' Genes

• Orangutan Finding Highlights Need to Protect Habitat

• Turns out Developing a Taste for Carbs Wasn't a Bad Thing

• Most Human Origins Stories Are Not Compatible With Known Fossils
• The Cerebellum May Have Played an Important Role in the Evolution of the Human Brain

• New Bonobo Genome Fine Tunes Great Ape Evolution Studies

• Mammals Evolved Big Brains After Big Disasters

• Human Antibiotic Use Threatens Endangered Wild Chimpanzees

• Travel Paths of Primates Show How Their Minds Work

• Analysis of Famous Fossil Helps Unlock When Humans and Apes Diverged

• The Chillest Ape: How Humans Evolved a Super-High Cooling Capacity

• Gorillas Do Not Bluff When They Chest Beat: Honest Signalling Indicates Body Size

• Apes Show Dramatically Different Early Immune Responses Compared to Monkeys

• How Humans Develop Larger Brains Than Other Apes

• Domestication and Industrialization Lead to Similar Changes in Gut Microbiota

• Chimpanzees Without Borders

• Fast-Learning Cuttlefish Pass the 'marshmallow Test'

• Chimpanzees and Humans Share Overlapping Territories

• New Fossil Discovery Illuminates the Lives of the Earliest Primates

• Friends Matter: Giraffes That Group With Others Live Longer

• Chimpanzee Friends Fight Together to Battle Rivals

• Whole Genomes Map Pathways of Chimpanzee and Bonobo Divergence
• The DNA Regions in Our Brain That Contribute to Make Us Human

• The Same Vision for All Primates

• When New Males Take Over, These Female Primates Hurry Up and Mature
• Species More Likely to Die out With Rapid Climate Changes

• Mountain Gorillas Are Good Neighbors Up to a Point

• Are Bushmeat Hunters Aware of Zoonotic Disease? Yes, but That's Not the Issue