Ever find yourself people-watching in a cafe, or tuning into reality TV just to see who's arguing with who? You're not ...

“Humans and chimpanzees last shared a common ancestor approximately 6 million years ago,” study last author, University of Zurich professor Simon Townsend, explained in a statement.

Distinct Rhythms Between Subspecies. Researchers analyzed 371 drumming bouts from 11 chimpanzee communities, discovering the western chimpanzees use evenly spaced beats, while eastern chimpanzees ...

“This is a big deal because this gesture isn’t part of the common chimp repertoire. ... Chimpanzees and bonobos share nearly 99 percent of their DNA with humans.

Bonobos and chimpanzees are the species most closely related to humans in evolutionary history, which means all three species could have evolved from a common ancestor with this ability, a theory ...

Not to be outdone by Ronan the beat-keeping sea lion or woodpeckers in the forest, some chimpanzees are also able to keep a beat and use regular spacing between drum hits. Over 300 observations of ...

Chimpanzees Take Turns in Fast-Paced Conversations, Just Like Humans Do A new study finds the average chimpanzee response time in gestured conversations is 120 milliseconds, which isn’t that far ...

The only chimpanzee fossils known to science have been unearthed in Kenya, the journal Nature reports. The three 545,000-year-old chimp teeth were dug up in the country's Tugen Hills and probably ...