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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question ...

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...