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Compared with humans, chimp infants appear to act as daredevils earlier in life, according to a paper published today in ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

As scientists have studied the chimpanzee, they’ve found more and more similarities between humans and their closest living relatives. But when it comes to the courts, chimps and humans couldn’t be ...

"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." That's the longest string of words that Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who scientists raised as a human and taught sign ...

Adolescent chimpanzees share some of the same risk-taking behaviors as human teens, but they may be less impulsive than their human counterparts, according to research published by the American ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.