Chimpanzees and humans already share 98.8% of the same DNA — they might as well learn to share conversation, too. New ...

A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs.

Despite the similarities in human and chimp genomes, the scientists identified some 40 million differences among the three billion DNA molecules, or nucleotides, in each genome. The vast majority ...

Previous research has shown that chimps have their own signature drumming style. A new analysis of 371 bouts of chimpanzee ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

A new study shows that inserting human DNA into mice grow bigger brains, offering clues to human brain evolution.

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

Chimpanzees are our closest primate relatives, sharing 99 percent of our DNA. We can both keep a beat ... appear to share some similarities. Like human children, chimpanzees develop different ...