What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Jane Goodall died Wednesday. As she was universally regarded as the greatest living expert on chimpanzees, her passing is a momentous event. It’s one that comes at a time of upheaval in the field she ...

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are closely related to chimps, the slight differences in ...

A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs. They gave it something much smaller — a tiny stretch of human DNA known as ...

The pattern of asymmetry in human brains could be a unique feature of our species and may hold the key to explaining how we first developed language ability, experts say. Findings are based on brain ...

New findings from Uganda’s Ngogo Chimpanzee Project challenge long-held assumptions about primate behaviour and child ...

Picture a baby chimp clinging to its mother's back, wide eyes taking in everything around it. Just like human babies, these little ones start life completely helpless, relying on their mom for ...