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The Mother Who Travels Farther So Her Kid Has Someone to Play With
A fifteen-year study of wild orangutans finds mothers steering toward specific neighbors’ territories days before their infants play, then steering home…
Jul 5
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The Brain That Overshot Its Target
Why some primate lineages didn’t just catch up in brain size, but kept going
Jul 2
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June 2026
The Obstetrical Dilemma Was Never Ours Alone
A new comparative study dismantles the long-standing idea that difficult childbirth is a uniquely human burden.
Jun 29
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Primate Lifespans Span a Tenfold Range. The Rate of Aging Has Barely Moved in 25 Million Years.
New research on 39 captive primate species finds that what makes apes age slowly is ancient, fixed, and probably invisible to human genetics studies.
Jun 27
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The Rhythm in Ape Laughter Is 15 Million Years Old
A new comparative study finds that the timing structure of laughter has been conserved across all living great apes since before the hominid lineage…
Jun 25
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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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