For decades, scientists have been studying the cognition of great apes to understand how our own complex cognitive abilities evolved. Much of the research is based on the idea that if a particular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study finds great apes share a laughter rhythm dating back 15 million years, offering clues to how human speech evolved. (CREDIT: ...

Apes share the human ability to imagine, suggests new research. A series of tea party-like experiments are the first study to show the capacity to pretend is not unique to mankind. American scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Great apes show stable cognitive differences, raising new questions about how ape intelligence is structured. (CREDIT: ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number of humans living on Earth is increasing fast, other great apes are in ...

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of Warwick study reveals. The finding offers unexpected clues to how human speech ...

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As humans, it’s important to remember that some of our oldest primate ancestors were apelike creatures. Besides our much larger brains and visibly obvious differences, such as facial features, one ...

Chimps, gorillas and humans have been laughing the same way for millions of years, suggests new research. The great apes may have been chuckling with a similar rhythm to mankind for at least 15 ...

A laugh can feel spontaneous, messy, almost impossible to pin down. But deep inside that burst of sound, researchers found a timing pattern so stable that it may have survived for 15 million years, ...