Bonobos, commonly seen as the peace-loving primate, are, together with chimpanzees, the closest living relatives to humans as ...

A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...

Though very close in genetic relationship and virtually next-door neighbors, chimpanzees and a less-well-known species called bonobos in Zaire are socially poles apart. Only identified as a ...

but only in the same way we are fish,” at just the time when genetic studies are making us confident about the relatively recent divergence of the ancestors of humans, chimpanzees and bonobos ...

Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, can tell when a human doesn’t know something and steps in to help — a cognitive ability never before identified in nonhuman apes, a study found.

However, the genetic changes that led to the emergence ... Comparing the human genome and those of chimps and bonobos may reveal some clues, for instance the expansion and diversification of ...