Human activities such as agriculture, logging, and urbanization are increasingly encroaching on the habitats of great apes.

Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.

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South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, home to early human fossils, reopened after three years, offering tourists a chance to ...

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Across millions of years of evolution, from ape to upright, email-answering, independent individual humans have developed an internal clock of alertness and exhaustion, driven primarily by the light ...

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Research study explores how genetic changes shaped the variety seen across primates — from brain development and body size to diet, vision, movement and survival in extreme environments.