New historical and evolutionary research places kissing in earlier manuscripts and models its possible roots in ancient ape ancestors.

Killing a rival and squabbling over food turn out to be statistically distant behaviors across the primate family tree. A ...

A virtual ecosystem populated by simulated chimpanzees, geladas, and baboons has produced societies so lifelike that males ...

These two groups study the same behavioral phenomena yet rarely interact or read each other’s work—a mutual blind spot that ...

(Anup Shah/Stone RF/Getty Images) Human languages are complex and versatile. They reflect our intelligence, our cultures, our need to understand and be understood. Our languages tend to follow ...

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s $120 million Primate Forest project unveils the first phase of its Primate Forest project on ...

Over his six-decade career, UChicago professor championed honest scholarship, diverse perspectives and his students ...

Unrelated virus. (Heather Davies/SPL/Getty Images) Some pieces of our DNA can copy themselves into new locations. Copies derived from one gene active in human brain cells appear to have taken that ...

For decades, palaeoanthropologists have argued about what the australopithecines — the small-brained, bipedal ancestors that ...

A study comparing 100 primate species, including humans, suggests that everyday aggression and lethal violence did not evolve as part of the same simple behavioral spectrum. Species that frequently ...

Most primate species have relatively large brains with surfaces marked by pronounced bulges and furrows. This is not the case with common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). The brains of these small ...

A research team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and ...