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

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 ...

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

There is nearly 99% of shared DNA, after all ... first words to appear in human speech,” the research team suggested. “Our data complements this picture: chimpanzees can produce the ...

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

from hundreds of non-invasively collected chimpanzee fecal samples. "For the first time, methods applied to analyze ancient DNA in human populations have been used to retrieve genetic information ...

Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives. From using forest herbs as medicine to creating and using tools, these ...

Chimpanzees and the closely related bonobos are the species nearest genetically to humans, sharing about 98.8% of our DNA. The human and chimpanzee evolutionary lineages split about 6.9 million to ...