The 11.6-million-year-old bones still don’t tell us how members of the genus Homo became bipeds Tree-dwelling apes in Europe strode upright around 5 million years before members of the human ...

The lanky gibbon is known for its superb mastery of tree swinging, but how does it react to a simple hedgehog? Watch and see for yourself!

For decades it had been a mystery how female Bonobos, cousins to humans, claim higher positions than males in their troop ...

Videos of chimpanzees sharing alcoholic fruit suggest that this behavior could have led to feasting in humans, a new study ...

Yet we five great apes do differ significantly in diet, temperament, behavior, and other aspects. In this family tree, have a look at what sets us and the four other hominids apart from one ...

Fitch-Margoliash or Neighbor-joining trees by hand For the interested: download some comments on the ape phylogeny-building (especially useful if trying the methods that are more complex than UPGMA) ...

African apes, our next closest kin on the primate ancestral tree, diverged about 10.6 to 10.9 million years ago, and orangutans some 18.2 to 19.6 million years ago. The new ape genome resource is ...

The HC-LCA would have had an ape-sized brain and body, with relatively long arms and fingers and a grasping foot that allowed it to forage in the trees. The canine teeth were probably large and ...