Are helicopter parents the reason kids don’t turn rebellious until their teenage years, when they finally get some autonomy?

In humans, teens do the most dangerous things. In chimpanzees, that honor goes to toddlers. The difference may lie in ...

The youngest chimpanzees are the biggest risk-takers. Would humans show the same pattern if adults weren’t keeping such a ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

Chimpanzees show physical risk taking peaks in infancy, not adolescence, highlighting the powerful role of supervision in ...

Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

Ai, a chimpanzee who spent nearly five decades at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute demonstrating that the gap ...

Ai, a "genius" chimpanzee who could recognise more than 100 Chinese characters and the English alphabet, has died aged 49, ...

As scientists have studied the chimpanzee, they’ve found more and more similarities between humans and their closest living relatives. But when it comes to the courts, chimps and humans couldn’t be ...