Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison University expected to find risky behavior to peak in adolescence in a study of ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University and Universidad Carlos III de ...

A new study from Uganda shows that chimpanzee culture and learning are much more complex than scientists once believed.

According to research published today in Science, bumblebees are capable of the same goal-oriented problem-solving. To test ...

You generally have reasons, good or bad, for your beliefs. You can reflect on those reasons: “Why do I think there’s a serial killer in the attic? It’s because the floor creaked.” And, paragon of ...