Kyoto University’s Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior has launched a memorial website for Ai, a chimpanzee known as a “genius” for her cognitive abilities, after she died at the age ...

The study suggests that both humans and chimpanzees possess a “shared cognitive predisposition” for crystals. Whenever such a trait emerges as common between two related species, it’s likely that this ...

The crystal chimp study, published on Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, was an attempt to understand what about the shimmering minerals is so attractive to the apes’ closest cousins, ...

More than a century ago, the Chinese paleontologist and archaeologist Pei Wenzhong found an unusual trove in the same cave near Beijing where he found the skulls of the early hominin Peking Man. Along ...

Scientists in Spain investigated which characteristics of crystals may have made them so fascinating to our ancestors.

Primates of all stripes really love their crystals. Archeologists have found the shiny rocks at dig sites dating back as long ...

In experiment 1, the crystal was placed on a pedestal which had been installed months prior to the experiments, so it did not constitute a novelty for the chimpanzees.

Crystals have repeatedly been found at archaeological sites alongside Homo remains. Evidence shows that hominins have been collecting these stones for as long as 780,000 years. Yet, we know that our ...

In the 2010s, DeepMind’s AlphaGo rediscovered centuries of accumulated human Go knowledge through individual learning, then went beyond it by crafting strategies no human had ever played. Human Go ...

The study focused on Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo who died in March 2025 at the age of 44. Ape Initiative.

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A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans ...