Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

It has long been known that apes can plan ahead and consider the beliefs of other individuals, but no reproducible evidence ...

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In a playtime experiment, researchers found that our closest living relatives have the capacity for make-believe, too.

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On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to ...

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The ability to imagine — to play pretend — has long been thought to be unique to humans. A new study suggests one of our ...

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For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...