Human performance—be it artistic, academic, social, or otherwise—is often influenced by the size of the crowd around them. But we aren’t the only species that adjusts to an audience. According to ...

Are helicopter parents the reason kids don't turn rebellious until their teenage years, when they finally get some autonomy?

In humans, teens do the most dangerous things. In chimpanzees, that honor goes to toddlers. The difference may lie in ...

Complicated births may not have arisen in humans as a trade-off between our need for big brains and pelvises suitable for upright walking, new research in chimps suggests. When you purchase through ...

A University of Michigan and James Madison University study examining risk behavior in chimps and humans finds that human intervention may be causing risky behavior to peak in adolescence. In chimps, ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting wild chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park go through menopause, shedding light on the evolution of this rare trait in humans. When you purchase ...

Chimpanzees have protective genetic adaptations against malaria, according to a new study that could provide important insights into developing more effective malaria vaccines for humans. In the ...

BECCA MILFELDA shriek broke the dawn on the savannah, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli ...

WASHINGTON -- As different as chimps and humans look, they're mostly identical genetically -- except for their brains. A team of European and U.S. researchers compared gene activity in the brains, ...

Virtually the entire genomes of both chimpanzees and humans has been mapped out in some detail. At the level of the whole genome, about 98.7 percent of the nucleotides in human and chimp DNA are ...