For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some ...

Over the past several years my colleagues and I have been studying teasing in humans and great apes to figure out why—and when—this behavior evolved. Teasing exists in a gray area between play ...

A recent discovery in Türkiye is shaking up our understanding of human evolution. Scientists have identified a new fossil ape, Anadoluvius turkae, from an 8.7-million-year-old site near Çankırı. This ...

As the research shows, Anadoluvius turkae was a large species of ape which lived in dry savannah-like climates ... and spread to Africa during the time period known as the late Miocene epoch which ...

Planet of the Apes was a franchise spawning phenomenon in the late 60s. Living in the center of the sci fi spectrum, it wore its b-movie camp on its sleeve right next to relevant social commentary.

There’s some visceral horror to that sequence but it reminded me of a mash-up between Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Taylor Swift’s video for diss track “Look What You Made Me Do ...

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Wild chimpanzees appear to learn skills from each other and then – much as humans do – improve on those techniques from one generation to the next. In particular, young females that migrate ...

In a remarkable discovery, researchers have unearthed a previously unknown species of great ape, Buronius manfredschmidi, that inhabited the region approximately 11.6 million years ago during the late ...

but also fossil apes that lived in the Miocene period some 23 to 5.3 million years ago. Their analysis placed the tree-climbing, upright-walking specimen into an evolutionary bracket between the ...