Here's something that'll make your next giggle session feel a bit weird: scientists genuinely can't figure out if your laughter evolved from joyful chimp panting or from the threatening bared-teeth ...

New findings by researchers at the University of Montpellier, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and the German Primate Center in Göttingen resolve why male-female ...

Although about half of primate species play as adults with other adults, a team of international researchers has just unlocked a key factor in the reason why some don't. The answer lies in the type of ...

Violence and peacefulness as behavioral potentialities of primates / James Silverberg and J. Patrick Gray -- Aggression as a well-integrated part of primate social relationships : a critique of the ...

Male aggression and sexual coercion of females in primates / Martin N. Muller, Sonya M. Kahlenberg, and Richard W. Wrangham -- Evolution of sexual coercion with respect to sexual selection and sexual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bonobos (Pan Paniscus) on a tree branch. The Swearing and Aggressive Bonobo ( Pan paniscus). Democratic Republic of Congo. Africa© ...

At the recent American Association of Physical Anthropologists meetings in Portland, I sat through an interesting talk about lethal aggression in chimpanzees. The presenter, Michael Wilson from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nothing brings a group of primates together, humans included, quite like a threat from outside. Bonobos are unique among primates ...

Just because bonobos are not as prone to using aggression first, doesn't mean they don't display it if a male steps out of line. It was previously thought that chimpanzees were at least 2.8 times more ...