What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum ...

Cliff's career peaked with "The Harder They Come," but, after a break in the late 1970s, he worked for decades with the ...

Chimpanzees change their choices when stronger clues appear and stay the course when only weaker hints came in.

For something so admired, so synonymous with merit, the concept of intelligence is remarkably poorly understood. Our society operates on the assumption that people with greater intelligence deserve ...

It’s the strongest evidence yet that we share the planet with another rational being,” said Duke University evolutionary ...

For something so admired, so synonymous with merit, the concept of intelligence is remarkably poorly understood. Our society operates on the assumption that people with greater intelligence deserve ...

Our ancient primate relatives—including Neanderthals—may have enjoyed a nice peck on the lips. But researchers still don’t ...

The San Francisco Zoo is soon saying goodbye to its three chimpanzees -- Twiggy, Gombus, and Michael -- as it plans to ...

Rachel Dolezal, who legally changed her name in 2016 to Nkechi Amare Diallo, looks different — again. The former president of ...

They found the act of kissing can be traced all the way back to the last common ancestor of humans and other great apes, ...

San Francisco Zoo is rehoming its last three chimps and pausing the chimp program to focus on orangutan conservation.

A new study identifies how LLMs develop social reasoning capabilities and form theory of mind (ToM), an important discovery ...