Amid this controversy, Russian biologist Ilya Ivanov set out in the mid-1920s to crossbreed humans and chimpanzees. Ivanov argued that successfully creating a "humanzee" would demonstrate biological ...

The curious minds at What If reveal the truth about human and chimpanzee evolution, comparing genomes, behavior, and evolutionary divergence. Coffee found to have startling effect on aging, says new ...

Learn how video footage of monkeys in West Africa has unlocked new answers in the debate over the last common ancestor of ...

The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned ...

By comparing the neural processing of vocalizations emitted by species close to humans, such as chimpanzees, bonobos and macaques, it is possible to observe what our brain shares, or does not share, ...

Homo sapiens and chimpanzees evolved with a turbo-charged “fight-or-flight” response mechanism in comparison to other non-human primates, according to a new study published April 19 in the journal ...