New research shows bonobos and chimpanzees comfort others at similar rates, challenging old beliefs about ape empathy.

For example, humans and our closest living relatives ... to a deeper and more refined understanding of human evolution in the context of apes, not by delivering definitive answers, but by laying ...

Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations—referred ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos ...

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Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

Researchers at Durham University found that chimpanzees were as likely to console one another as bonobos - even though the ...

Differences among the DNA of seven ape species—including humans—are greater than originally thought, according to an ...