P rimates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, ...

The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent ... back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion years ago. And the evolutionary view of a single (and very ancient ...

Scientists have shown that bonobos combine their calls into complex sound sequences that resemble combinations of human words ...

The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos sometime around 6 million years ago (mya). We begin this ...

New World monkeys last shared a common ancestor with Old World monkeys about 30-50 mya, but the diversification of New World monkeys and the divergence times of these lineages are not well understood.

To find out if baboons, which are particularly sociable monkeys, are capable of ... was potentially inherited from a common ancestor of both humans and baboons at least 30 million years ago.