Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do. How do ...

The peeps, hoots and grunts of wild bonobos, a species of great ape living in the African rainforest, can convey complex thoughts in a way that mirrors some elements of human language, a new study ...

Bonobos at the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo. What leads people to acts of violence and genocide? What triggers empathy and altruism? Duke evolutionary biologist Brian ...

Human reading looks so ordinary that it is easy to treat it as the default way brains extract meaning from marks. Yet when I ...

Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, can tell when a human doesn’t know something and steps in to help — a cognitive ability never before identified in nonhuman apes, a study found.

Juvenile bonobo embraces a distressed companion during post-conflict consolation. Psychologists from Durham University, UK, observed the behaviour of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether ...

If you’ve heard the common phrase, “Bonobos make love, not war,” you might wonder about the context behind this statement. Essentially, bonobos use sexual activity as a form of conflict resolution.

A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely linked, anatomically, to human ancestors than common chimpanzees.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Some animals, like humans, can sense and respond to a musical beat, a finding that has implications for understanding how the skill evolved, scientists said on Saturday. A study of ...