Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

To many people’s surprise, hunting and eating meat is a regular part of wild chimpanzee life. Chimps' hunting varies between ...

Here’s a look at the life of world-renowned primatologist, activist and conservationist Jane Goodall. Personal Birth date: April 3, 1934 Birth place: London, England Birth name: Valerie Jane ...

Using state-of-the-art statistical models, they found that relationships emerged between chimpanzees' sequential actions which matched those found in human behaviors. Half of adult chimpanzees ...

one thing that often surprises people is that chimps eat meat. Listeners are truly shocked—"Wait what?" they say, "Chimps eat other animals?" They do, I say. They eat piglets, and small deer ...