Researchers describe a link between genetic relatedness and sophisticated tool use in primates in East and Central Africa, ...

2003). The similarities between the living African apes were thought to have been inherited from a common ancestor (=primitive features), implying that the earliest hominins and our last common ...

World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation ... S.A. The evolution of human genetic and phenotypic Variation in Africa. Current Biology 20, R166-R173 (2010). Chen, F.C. & Li, W.H. Genomic ...

The great apes of Africa face extinction in the next few decades if more is not done to conserve them. All four species - the chimpanzee, bonobo, western gorilla and eastern gorilla - are threatened ...

New research shows industrial mining threatens up to one-third of Africa's great ape population, Ben writes. Why it matters: Growing amounts of minerals — like copper, cobalt and nickel — that ...

Analysis of fossils recovered in the 1990s in Greece supports the idea that the apes and ancestors of humans evolved in ...

The study estimates that the threat of mining to great apes in Africa has been greatly underestimated and that more than one-third of the entire population—nearly 180,000 gorillas, bonobos and ...

Orangutans are great apes native to Asia and live in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. They have long limbs and special ...

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor, perhaps as recently as 5 to 10 million years ago. At some stage the hominids split ...

Scientists know that malaria infection is widespread across the geographic ranges of wild chimpanzees and gorillas in fact, the African great apes harbour at least 12 different Plasmodium species ...

The discovery of an ancient ape skull may challenge the long-held belief that the ancestors of apes and humans came from Africa, a controversial new study says. The partial skull of the ape ...