Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

"This work uncovered novel adaptive signatures in genes related to diet, immune response and cellular activity, offering precise insights into the evolutionary pressures shaping great ape genomes," ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

Monkeys are the world’s best yodellers, according to new research. Rather than Austria or Switzerland, scientists say the ...

It turns out apes and monkeys possess vocal membranes in their throats that humans lack. Scientists suspect these structures ...

A recent investigation led by voice scientist Christian T. Herbst from the University of Vienna and colleagues from Anglia ...

New research shows that when it comes to yodeling, some monkeys outperform even the famed Alpine singers of Austria and ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

Brian Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, presented his “survival of the friendliness” ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Japanese researchers used a nonviral piggyBac system to genetically modify cynomolgus monkeys, enabling more accurate disease ...