We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
How Much Meat Do Our Closest Genetic Relatives—Great Apes—Eat? A Biologist Answers
We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...
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The biggest coincidence in human evolution
Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means ...
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‘Make-up sex’ for peace behavior in apes reveals how human intimacy began
A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...
Bonobos and chimps offer clues to how our early ancestors had sex for social purposes
We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that ...
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Sex has been used in conflict resolution for millions of years
New research suggests that using sex to ease social tension may have roots going back more than six million years.
I Still Think Planet of the Apes Has the Best Sci-Fi Trilogy of All Time
The Planet of the Apes franchise is moving ahead, with an Oscar nomination for last year’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ...
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‘Make-up sex’ for peace behavior in apes reveals how human intimacy began
In humans, sexual behavior has a bigger purpose ... A new study has extended sexuality's social role to our closest animal species—apes. An international team of scientists has found that ...