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What the Ants Tell Us About Chimpanzee Culture
The strategies savanna chimpanzees use to harvest army ants look almost identical to what forest populations do — and that’s the surprising part
Jun 9
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What Primate Teeth Reveal About a Supposed Human Habit
A new study of wild primates complicates one of paleoanthropology’s oldest claims — and raises a stranger question about what our teeth say about modern…
Jun 9
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When the Boss Eats Last: Chimpanzee Groups, the Tragedy of the Commons, and a Leadership Paradox
New research shows that chimpanzee quartets outperform pairs at sustaining a shared resource — and the reason why upends assumptions about dominance and…
Jun 4
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May 2026
The Human Wrist’s Knuckle-Walking Past
The bones that enable human dexterity appear to have been inherited from a knuckle-walking ancestor.
May 20
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Why Primate Males Grow Large: The Case Against the Standard Answer
Neighboring groups, not just rival males, may be shaping sexual size dimorphism across primates
May 13
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April 2026
What 81 Apes Can Tell Us About the Origins of Human Thought
A new open-access dataset assembles 18 years of cognitive experiments from the world’s most-studied great ape population.
Apr 26
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Great Apes Match Each Other’s Laugh Faces with Surprising Precision
A new study on orangutans and chimpanzees suggests the fine-tuning of facial mimicry runs deep in primate evolution
Apr 10
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When Former Friends Become Enemies: The Ngogo Chimpanzee Fission and What It Says About Collective Violence
A community of nearly 200 chimpanzees in Uganda split into two rival groups and descended into years of lethal conflict — without ideology, ethnicity…
Apr 10
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March 2026
A Jaw from Egypt Rewrites the Origin of Modern Apes
A newly described Early Miocene ape from northern Egypt suggests the common ancestor of all living apes lived in a region that paleontologists had…
Mar 27
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The Ape Culture Wars Are Not Really About Apes
How a decades-long fight between primatologists says as much about scientific culture as it does about chimpanzee culture
Mar 27
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The Chimpanzee in the Machine
Our brains have a dedicated space for human voices, but it turns out we’ve been keeping the door open for our closest relatives.
Mar 25
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The Three-Room Apartment in the Primate Ear
New research suggests the vestibular system is not one organ, but two distinct evolutionary modules.
Mar 25
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