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Apes have the same willingness to share food as small children

In lab experiments, chimpanzees and bonobos share peanuts and grapes with other apes who shared food first, doing so at about the same rate as 4-year-old children

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Portrait of family of a Chimpanzee bonobo ( Pan paniscus). Democratic Republic of Congo. Africa

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Chimpanzees may have an adolescent growth spurt like humans

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Children aged 5 are better at switching their attention than chimps

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Two people, little girl playing with toy blocks, her mother is sitting next to her at home.
2FM22K7 The joy is evident on the face of this young orangutan. BORNEO: THIS BRITISH photographer has spent TWENTY years snapping Borneo?s cutest orangutans.

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Living in trees may have given great apes vocal skills for consonants

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Unlike in other primates, the human voice box has lost small tissue structures called vocal membranes, which may have been involved in the evolution of speech

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Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

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Frans de Waal on what apes can teach us about sex and gender

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Frans de Waal on what apes can teach us about sex and gender

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Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history

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An extreme example of facial asymmetry in a female Virunga mountain gorilla cranium (Tayna, individual GP.148), shown as a three-dimensional surface model with texture. This individual was not included in the sample as she was dentally immature at the time of death, but she exhibits an extreme version of the asymmetric pattern documented in this study.

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Mountain gorilla inbreeding has distorted their facial features

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Living through a hurricane accelerated the ageing process for monkeys

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Howler monkeys navigate using adaptable mental maps, just like humans

Black howler monkeys move through their environment using mental maps that the primates modify and adapt as the landscape changes – a skill previously seen only in humans

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A Black Howler monkey

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First known wild chimpanzee with albinism was killed by other chimps

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Puzzle-solving great apes: The shared abilities underpinning language

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Lucy, the Human Chimp review: The ape that was raised like a human

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Female monkeys call to males when they see a predator approaching

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