By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Associate Professor Federico Battiston and PhD Student Onkar Sadekar, both researchers from the Department of Network and ...

The implications are breathtaking; if we could travel back far enough in time, we would find common ancestors between ourselves and every other living organism, from porcupines to flamingoes to ...

Kidnapped from his family as an infant, then raised by a drug lord before ending up in a Colombian zoo, Yoko the chimpanzee ...

Male chimpanzee embracing and body kissing his ... that using sex for social purposes was already present in the last common ancestor they share with humans, dating back over six million years.

By comparison, the role of sex in chimpanzee society has been less well ... could understand if using sex to ease social tension is a common behavioural trait between the two sister species.