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Sep. 14, 2022 —A team of scientists has discovered the earliest gibbon fossil, a find that helps fill a long-elusive evolutionary gap in the history of ...
Sep. 8, 2020 —A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon. The discovery fills a major void in the ape fossil ...
Dec. 20, 2021 —Genetic assessment of captive gibbons to identify their species and subspecies is an important step before any conservation actions. A group of wildlife researchers recently discovered a previously ...
Jan. 24, 2023 —Humans retain an understanding of gestures made by other great apes, even though we no longer use them ourselves, according to a new ...
Oct. 21, 2021 —The first-ever Africa-wide assessment of great apes -- gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees -- finds that human factors, including roads, population density and GDP, determine abundance more than ...
May 6, 2021 —In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded, but so has the level of dispute concerning early human ...
Sep. 5, 2022 —Researchers are protecting great apes from diseases by studying the behavior and expectations of tourists who visit ...
Dec. 20, 2022 —Research finds orangutans communicate using a complex repertoire of consonant-like calls, more so than African apes. Previous research has only linked the evolution of human language with the ...
Feb. 23, 2023 —Scientists conducted a study that reveals the first evidence of harm caused by malaria infection among wild African apes. They discovered that bonobo populations differ in a key immune trait ...
Sep. 25, 2020 —A research team has systematically investigated the cognitive abilities of lemurs, which have relatively small brains compared to other primates. Conducting systematic tests with identical methods ...