The Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium mapped the 3 billion nucleotides that compose the genetic material of the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), the only nonhuman primate to have ...

Chimpanzees use tools in sequences, planning and adapting actions like humans. This suggests the roots of complex human ...

Research indicates that the complex behaviors used in human language and tool making, such as organizing actions into sequences, may have evolved in our common ancestors with chimpanzees. This study ...

This discovery comes from analysing five wild communities of common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) living in East Africa. Researchers studied 8,559 gestures by 252 chimpanzees, making it one of the ...

"Interaction with tourists and loggers can expose chimpanzees to diseases that they cannot fight, like the common cold or the flu," said the Jane Goodall Institute. Even the Ebola virus is ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...

Like humans, wild chimpanzees engage in snappy, turn-taking conversations, where they wait just a fraction of a second for their turn to 'speak'. The animals communicate mostly with gestures ...