You see a cat chasing a mouse. You probably don’t realize it, but as soon as you catch sight of this scene unfolding, your brain makes a key distinction between the cat and the mouse: It identifies ...

The study of gestural communication in great apes has provided a rich insight into the evolutionary roots of human language. Apes typically employ an extensive repertoire of innate gestures that are ...

Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a new study. Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably similar vocalizations during play that share evolutionary origins with human ...

In the late aughts, while working on the island of Jersey, in the United Kingdom, Erica Cartmill found herself staring at a daughter giving her mother some grief. The little one was waving a stick in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent study conducted across primates of Africa and Asia revealed that human patterns may be more damaging to great ape species ...

A chimpanzee watching a video of an agent (left) brushing the hair of a patient (right). Red circles indicate her gaze fixations, and red lines indicate attentional switching between agent and patient ...