The researchers extracted 10 principal regulatory modules from the whole-genome data and ranked them in descending order of ...

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

Chimpanzees can combine vocal calls to form new meanings. This suggests a primitive form of syntax, hinting at the roots of ...

Learn more about how researchers have discovered that chimps can combine calls in multiple ways to create new meanings, ...

A recent study has revealed that wild chimpanzees use vocal combinations with remarkable complexity, analogous to fundamental ...

Two studies of wild chimps point to the evolutionary roots of human language. The studies found that chimp communication ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

An infant bonobo named Melumbe was seen cuddling with its mother Malaika at the Cologne Zoo on Thursday (May 8) as it made ...

People have been left in awe of a man who spent weeks studying how bonobos communicate and managed to mimic their behaviors ...

In terms of raw power, the gorilla wins every time. But humans fight dirty. Judging by our evolutionary success, humans would ...