"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 ...

The frequently cited 99% similarity between human and chimp DNA overlooks key differences in the genomes.

An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns of behavior that seemingly mirror those of our prehistoric human ancestors, casting light on how our predecessors may have utilized ...

One percent might not seem like a lot, but in human evolution, it’s all that genetically separates humans from chimpanzees. Scientists have long pondered how a 1% genetic difference could be so ...

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 ...

A Ngamba Island chimpanzee in Uganda. The human capacity for rational thinking makes us unique among the animal kingdom, according to wise, old Aristotle. However, an ever-growing body of research ...

Chimpanzees exhibit sophisticated self-medication, using plants like "bitter leaf" to combat parasites and rough leaves to ...

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