By Charles Mpaka Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of ...

As for how complex these schemes are, well, they outsmarted humans. Orangutan minds that can achieve these schemes are at least as sophisticated as the minds of other great apes, and they reveal ...

Hominidae is the primate family otherwise known as ‘the great apes’. Humans belong in this family group along with bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans. The great apes are the ...

Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs. A range of ...

Interestingly, unlike humans, only adult apes showed this memory ... Social attention increases object memory in adult but not younger great apes, Animal Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.

That is, the other great apes. Humans are, after all, part of the same family. In fact, we share 96 per cent of our DNA with certain species due to sharing a common ancestor millions of years ago.

Miocene great apes belong to an evolutionary family that includes modern chimps, gorillas, orangutans and humans. Evidence that Danuvius and Buronius survived on different resources in the same ...

In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.