A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

the research showed how chimpanzees select stones for nut-cracking tasks: they prefer harder stones as hammers and softer ones as anvils. This practice is similar to that of early human ancestors such ...

But with the advent of molecular studies it has become clear that chimpanzees share a more recent common ancestor with humans, and are thus more closely related to us than they are to gorillas (e ...

This practice is similar to that of early human ancestors such as Oldowan hominins, which shares common evolutionary origins in tool making. The study also noticed younger chimps learning from ...

Our results suggest that the fundamental aspects of human sequential behaviors may have evolved prior to the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, and then may have been further elaborated ...

“The majority of palaeoanthropologists tend to assume that the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans looked like a chimpanzee,” said anatomical scientist Sergio Almecija of the Stony ...

A new study reports that primates will synchronize urination with implications for the evolution of social cohesion ...

(Hominins are a group of species that includes modern humans plus all our extinct ancestors and relatives since the split from the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees.) The Oldowan tools ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

anthropologists and behavioral scientists has found that the process used by modern chimps to select tools for cracking nuts may be similar to how ancient human ancestors chose their tools.

A recent study led by the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior has revealed that wild chimpanzees are capable of organizing their actions into complex sequences ...