A study by University of Stirling researchers has shed new light on the behavior of the closest living relatives of humans—chimpanzees. Researchers in the Division of Psychology found that ...

Neanderthals were humans' closest relatives. But something happened millennia ago that wiped them out. Today, there are 8.1 ...

Because this kind of cumulative culture is a feature of hominids broadly, researching this phenomenon in the context of one ...

Those are the types of questions that have been driving Krupenye’s research into the social and cognitive abilities of humans’ closest relatives for more than a decade. After earning a Ph.D. in ...

Research reveals that both humans and primates possess social knowledge, enabling them to understand social dynamics. An eye-tracking study shows similarities in how apes and humans identify agents in ...

The finding in chimps -- humans' closest living relatives -- holds relevance for us too, as it supports the idea that, deep in the mists of time, our own ape ancestors leveraged social connections ...