A Christian scientist says one of America’s most prestigious museums is promoting scientific misinformation about the history of mankind. In a July op-ed for the New York Post, attorney and geologist ...

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When you look at someone, you usually look at their face. It serves as one of the most important sources of social ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study, ape species more closely related to humans, such as chimpanzees, were able to laugh faster than gorillas or ...

For decades, scientists have been studying the cognition of great apes to understand how our own complex cognitive abilities evolved. Much of the research is based on the idea that if a particular ...

Amid this controversy, Russian biologist Ilya Ivanov set out in the mid-1920s to crossbreed humans and chimpanzees. Ivanov ...

Thus, to claim a “species difference” in social cognition between apes and humans, at our present state of knowledge, is to promulgate the same kinds of prejudices that hereditarians evinced in the ...

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