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

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

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

A new study explores how kissing evolved with the help of science, tracing it back to early grooming behaviors in ancient ...

You probably have a general understanding of the human brain: a network of nerve ... system” Our anatomy has barely changed from our common ancestor with chimpanzees. But language, it seems ...

SHENZHEN -- Chinese scientists have, for the first time, confirmed the existence of microglia in the peripheral nervous ...

But the muriquis—the largest primates in the Americas after human ... ancestor living some 55 million years ago in Africa or Asia, the group includes tarsiers, lemurs, lorises, monkeys, apes ...

That meant the neurons evolved in a common ancestor of all the great apes about 13 million years ago, after they diverged from other primates but well before the human and chimp lineages diverged ...

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