The study suggests that both humans and chimpanzees possess a “shared cognitive predisposition” for crystals. Whenever such a ...

Chimpanzees love their alcohol. Among our closest primate relatives, they frequently feast on fermented fruit in the wild. So ...

Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins.

Chimpanzees share more than 98% of human DNA, and decades of field research across Africa show their societies can be intensely violent. Long-term studies at sites like Gombe and Kibale document ...

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 ...

Some of Dr. Seuss's most enthusiastic readers this year weren't human, but a different primate with a serious curiosity for bright illustrations.