Studies on intraspecific variation in animal social structures are needed to inform an evolutionary account of human sociality. Here, we study multiple independent bonobo populations (n = 6) in ...

Scientists now know how many bonobos live in one of the largest pristine tropical forests, a place believed to be the world's stronghold for the endangered species. The research estimates that between ...

making it potentially vulnerable to future ecological changes and human activities such as encroachment. These findings suggest the bonobos are at higher risk than previously thought in several ...

Bonobos, human’s closest relatives, are classified as an endangered species. Groundbreaking research suggests their vulnerability might be even more severe than previously thought. In a first-of ...

For thousands of years, humans have come together in small group to feast on food. Why is it important – and why do we still ...

"It's always the same story, claim after claim about how humans are different, but usually within five to 10 years a claim is debunked." By better understanding bonobos, Surbeck says we can expand ...

The findings also bolster the theory that long-term memory in humans, chimpanzees and bonobos likely comes from our shared ...

“The founding of the modern African open-country fauna from the eastern Mediterranean has long been known and now we can add to the list of entrants the ancestors of the African apes and humans,” said ...

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 ...

Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor ...

Scientists now know how many bonobos live in one of the largest pristine tropical forests, a place believed to be the world's ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...