The experiment suggests that the animals are “not just driven by simple, emotional responses” but “have rather complex ...

The research, titled "Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs," was carried out by a team including UC Berkeley ...

Researchers found that chimpanzees update their beliefs based on evidence, showing a human-like ability to reason and reflect ...

Groundbreaking research finds chimpanzees can revise their beliefs based on new evidence, revealing human-like reasoning once ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international ...

Chimpanzees mirror human thought processes in new study - The primates can critically assess the quality of evidence when ...

In a series of experiments designed to test the metacognition of these fascinating apes, psychologist Hanna Schleihauf of ...

Grunts, barks, screams and pants ring through Taï National Park in Cȏte d’Ivoire. Chimpanzees there combine these different calls like linguistic Legos to relay complex meanings when communicating, ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...

Jane Goodall, a pioneering primatologist who befriended chimpanzees, is dead at 91. She discovered that chimpanzees make and use tools, engage in war, and have personalities. Later in life, Goodall ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...