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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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Killing Is Not Just Fighting Turned Up
A new comparative study of 100 primate species finds that lethal and mild aggression have decoupled evolutionarily — and that how often a species…
Mar 22
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A 13-Million-Year-Old Jaw and the Origins of the Howler Monkey's Diet
New mandibular fossils from Colombia push back the earliest evidence of committed leaf-eating in South American primates
Mar 12
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The Bonobo Myth: Why the Peaceful Ape Story Doesn't Hold Up
A new large-scale study finds that Pan paniscus and Pan troglodytes are equally aggressive — they just hit different targets.
Mar 11
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Grass in the Ear, Grass in the Rectum: What Chimpanzee Fads Reveal About the Origins of Culture
A sanctuary in Zambia accidentally documented something strange about why animals — and maybe humans — copy each other.
Mar 6
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What Chimpanzees Do With Crystals Tells Us Something Strange About Ourselves
A new study tested whether our closest relatives share our ancient attraction to quartz and calcite — and the results are hard to explain away.
Mar 5
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