In humans, teens do the most dangerous things. In chimpanzees, that honor goes to toddlers. The difference may lie in ...

Are helicopter parents the reason kids don’t turn rebellious until their teenage years, when they finally get some autonomy?

Chimpanzees show physical risk taking peaks in infancy, not adolescence, highlighting the powerful role of supervision in ...

Compared with humans, chimp infants appear to act as daredevils earlier in life, according to a paper published today in ...

Adolescents are known for risky behavior, with teenagers in the US more likely than younger children to die from injury.

Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." That's the longest string of words that Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who scientists raised as a human and taught sign ...

As scientists have studied the chimpanzee, they’ve found more and more similarities between humans and their closest living relatives. But when it comes to the courts, chimps and humans couldn’t be ...

Adolescent chimpanzees share some of the same risk-taking behaviors as human teens, but they may be less impulsive than their human counterparts, according to research published by the American ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are among the closest living relatives of humans. They share more than 98% of our DNA, highlighting ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.