The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

When primatologist Frans de Waal died in 2024, he left a huge scientific legacy. His work was a fixture in this magazine for decades, and he wrote a small library of books, including The Age of ...

Miocene fossils of Dryopithecus, found in France, Spain and Austria, revealed a European great ape whose place in the ...

After spending weeks studying bonobo vocalizations and gestures, I visited one of the world's leading bonobo research centers ...

In fact, the overwhelming majority of animals have tails. Only a select few, like us humans, don’t have an external tail. But ...

Bone strength in seven fossils shows early Homo committed to the ground, while Australopithecus kept the arm strength of a climbing ape.

Humans walk upright, carry brains three times larger than those of our closest relatives, and possess slender, distinctly ...

In 2003, in the deep forests of Bossou in Guinea, a chimpanzee mother did something that reshaped how we view animal minds. Jire carried the the lifeless body of her one-year-old infant Jimato for ...

Wild chimpanzees in Senegal were filmed doing something researchers have long debated whether apes are even capable of: ...

Where did Sapiens come from?When thinking about human evolution, for a long time I imagined something like a single ...

I sometimes hear people say they struggle with how to interact with their subordinates or that they "don't know how to ...

An analysis of 601 great apes suggests that brain mass in humans’ closest living relatives may not decline with age as it ...