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To understand the barriers endangered species face when trying to traverse their habitat, it helps to think of their environment like an electrical circuit board.
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But with chimps now endangered, we risk losing their forest-rebuilding abilities.
A Western lowland gorilla in a zoo enclosure in Prague, Czech Republic.
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People can still learn a great deal about these mammals while keeping a safe distance.
Imitation is the sincerest form of being human?
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A quirk of psychology that affects the way people learn from others may have helped unlock the complicated technologies and rituals that human culture hinges on.
Chimpanzees forced to interact with humans can develop stress and other health problems.
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Shareable online images of chimpanzees, elephants and other animals are threatening their conservation and welfare.
Kila with her infant, Kitu.
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Attacks on chimpanzees are happening at an alarming rate, within and outside national parks.
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As a human evolution researcher, I was very excited to work with the creator of the Assassin's Creed games.
Animal thought does not have the structure of human language.
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Can we really know what animals think? A philosopher argues that we can't, not with any precision.
Even smaller primates like the squirrel monkey need far more room than any home can provide.
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The way of life primates have evolved to live cannot be replicated in a human home.
Chimpanzees are one of our closest relatives.
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Chimpanzees, like humans, possess working memory abilities. They're able to perform similar to seven-year-old children.
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The discovery sheds light on how early humans evolved larger brains and the ability to eat meat.
Humans can easily transmit viruses to chimpanzees and other primates.
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Human-to-ape disease transmission is thought to be a severe threat to the survival of great apes.
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Our closest relatives show distinct cultural behaviour in different populations. But those differences are being erased.
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An Ig Nobel Prize-winning study suggests we need to rethink why imitation evolved.
Pygmies in the Dzanga-Sangha Forest Reserve, Central African Republic.
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Somewhere along our evolutionary path, we lost the ability to defend against hepatitis C. But not all humans lost this ability.
How do animals think and feel?
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A growing body of evidence points to how animals are aware of death, can experience grief and will sometimes mourn for or ritualize their dead.
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Early hominins are thought to have made a new shelter every night, which taught them how to adapt to changing conditions.
The medicinal plants eaten by chimpanzees could develop improved traditional medicines.
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The medicinal plants that chimpanzees feed on in the wild could hold the key in dealing with common diseases.
Nisarg Desai observes wild chimps known as Sandi, Ferdinand and Siri in Tanzania.
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Do chimpanzee talk to each other? Scientists follow and record chimpanzees in the wild to find out – and to fill in details about how human language might have evolved.
Some people thought Charles Darwin was suggesting that, over a very long period of time, apes turned into people. He was not.
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The short answer is no. An individual of one species cannot, during its lifetime, turn into another species. But your question helps us think about life, evolution and what it means to be human.