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Savanna Chimps Exhibit Human-Like Sharing Behavior, Anthropologists Say
December 1, 2011 — Anthropologists report that chimpanzees in Senegal frequently share food and hunting tools with other chimps. This is thought to be the first study to document non-meat sharing behavior among ... > full story -
'Look at That!' Ravens Gesture With Their Beaks to Point out Objects to Each Other
November 29, 2011 — Pointing and holding up objects in order to attract attention has so far only been observed in humans and our closest living relatives, the great apes. Researchers now provide the first evidence that ... > full story -
Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations
November 21, 2011 — Traditionally, fossil-hunters often could only make educated guesses as to where fossils lie. The rest lay with chance. But thanks to a new software model, fossil-hunters' reliance on luck when ... > full story -
Chimps Play Like Humans: Playful Behavior of Young Chimps Develops Like That of Children
November 16, 2011 — Playful behavior is widespread in mammals, and has important developmental consequences. A recent study of young chimpanzees shows that these animals play and develop much the same way as human ... > full story -
No Need to Shrink Guts to Have a Larger Brain
November 9, 2011 — The so-called expensive-tissue hypothesis, which suggests a trade-off between the size of the brain and the size of the digestive tract, has been challenged. Researchers have now shown that brains in ... > full story -
'Junk DNA' Defines Differences Between Humans and Chimps
October 25, 2011 — DNA sequences for human and chimpanzees are nearly identical, despite vast phenotypical differences between the two species. Researchers have determined that the insertion and deletion of large ... > full story -
Culture in Humans and Apes Has the Same Evolutionary Roots, Researchers Show
October 20, 2011 — Culture is not a trait that is unique to humans. By studying orangutan populations, researchers have demonstrated that great apes also have the ability to learn socially and pass them down through a ... > full story -
Blame Backbone Fractures on Evolution, Not Osteoporosis: Adaptation to Upright Walking Leaves Humans Susceptible
October 19, 2011 — Osteoporosis is blamed for backbone fractures. The real culprit could well be our own vertebrae, which evolved to absorb the pounding of upright walking, researchers ... > full story -
New Technologies Challenge Old Ideas About Early Hominid Diets
October 13, 2011 — New assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets of early hominids are challenging long-held assumptions about what our ancestors ... > full story -
Children, Not Chimps, Prefer Collaboration: Humans Like to Work Together in Solving Tasks -- Chimps Don't
October 13, 2011 — Recent studies have shown that chimpanzees possess many of the cognitive prerequisites necessary for humanlike collaboration. Cognitive abilities, however, might not be all that differs between ... > full storyMore:
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