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Our ape cousins show us empathy has deep evolutionary roots – new research
Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...
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Ape-Like Human Ancestors Were Largely Vegetarian 3.3 Million Years Ago in South Africa, Fossil Teeth Reveal
The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old ...
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Empathic comforting varies more within bonobo and chimpanzee species than between them
Researchers have offered new insight into how our closest ape relatives - bonobos and chimpanzees – show empathy towards each ...
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Chimpanzees and Bonobos Show Empathy Like Humans, Study Reveals
New research finds chimpanzees and bonobos comfort each other like humans, challenging long-held views about empathy ...
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Six ape genomes sequenced telomere-to-telomere
Humans have a unique genetic control element in the middle of this Human Ancestor Quickly Evolving Region. Of special interest to human and ape evolutionary studies are repeats in the DNA code ...
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Six ape species' genomes sequenced telomere-to-telomere, providing open-access reference for human evolution studies
Humans have a unique genetic control element in the middle of this Human Ancestor Quickly Evolving Region. Of special interest to human and ape evolutionary studies are repeats in the DNA code ...