In recent decades, scientists have clearly demonstrated that chimpanzees, like humans, pass on complex cultures such as tool use from generation to generation. But human culture has become vastly more ...

Scientists have identified dozens of previously overlooked cultural behaviors in wild chimpanzees, suggesting that the great ape’s culture extends far beyond complex skills like tool use. In a single ...

When people talk to each other, their conversations usually include many fast twists. Humans do not naturally talk in Shakespearean soliloquies, but by regularly interrupting and wildly gesticulating.

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"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills—a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations ...

Scientists have long known that chimpanzees pass on cultural traditions, such as tool use, from generation to generation—just like humans. However, while human culture continuously evolves and builds ...

Chimpanzees at a wildlife sanctuary in Zambia have been observed engaging in what scientists are calling a “fashion trend” of dangling blades of grass or sticks from their ears and even inserting them ...

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Foreword / Frans de Waal -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. At the beginning -- 2. Food and feeding behaviour -- 3. Growth and development -- 4. Play and exploration -- 5. Communication as culture -- 6.