She worked on the chimpanzee genome in the early years of the Browser, a project that led her to an important discovery about the difference between humans and primates. She spoke with us about the ...

The best description of how his discovery came about, according to Sir Alec, has been provided by his grandson as part of a school project ... because of the size of the genome. If you look at the ...

The chimp genome's closeness to the human genome will make it a powerful tool for comparative genetics, which uses interspecies comparisons to identify areas of interest in the vast fields of data ...

Researchers from the Taï Chimpanzee Project observed members of the four neighbouring communities of wild chimpanzees every day from the time they left their nests in the morning until they went to ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

On Wednesday, officials with the Oklahoma City Zoo announced the death Mwami, a 36-year-old chimpanzee.

A new study, conducted on wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, provides evidence that the gestures used by male chimpanzees from four neighboring communities ...

Hate waiting in line for the bathroom? Chimpanzees have a social solution: Go all at once. A new study shows that peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, making it “the first study to investigate ...

The study in 20 captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Japan shows that, when one chimp pees, others are more likely to follow. A new study reported in the Cell Press journal ...