Other hominids include gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, and humans. A simple way to tell the difference between monkeys and ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs.

Ever since a giant gorilla scaled the Empire State Building with a beautiful damsel in his hand in 1933's King Kong, ...

It has been determined that a western lowland gorilla born at the zoo on May ... a Swahili word that means born in the rainy season. A male chimpanzee born at the zoo on March 27 has been named ...

First off, let’s be clear: Chimpanzees are not monkeys — even if that's the word often used to describe the "Better Man" character. Chimps are apes. (The quickest way to tell between an ape ...

Monkeys and apes are essential to ... Different societies of chimps use different tools to do the same job. Gorillas are able to plan for the short-term future. Their trails reveal they take ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...

we humans have a lot in common with bonobos and the three other great apes—the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan. Compared to the lesser primates, such as monkeys and lemurs, we five "hominid ...