Female chimps who migrate to new social groups bring skills and technology with them, helping to drive development of ...

While human culture has evolved dramatically - from the Stone Age to the Space Age - chimpanzee cultures appear relatively ...

In recent decades, scientists have clearly demonstrated that chimpanzees, like humans, pass on complex cultures such as tool ...

Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills -- a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ...

"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something.The finding in chimps -- humans' closest living relatives -- holds ...

Adult chimpanzees in the Taï Forest demonstrate that social play is crucial for cooperation and conflict resolution. Through ...

Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, providing evidence for ...

Compared to children, adults don’t play as much, but social play into adulthood is considered a universal human trait. Play has a role in building tolerance, cohesion, bonding, and cooperation. By ...

Cultural complexity in chimpanzees depends on migration and interaction between groups, echoing early human patterns of cultural evolution ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

Behind the scenes at a Chicago zoo, chimpanzees who spent years entertaining humans are learning to befriend their own kind.