Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the U.S. research institute where she was kept. Washoe was said by her keepers to ...

A chimp swings from a branch at the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden sanctuary 15 kilometres south of Nelspruit. - Reuters file Just as Bostonians moving to Tokyo ditch “grapefruit” and adopt ...

Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be essential for the evolution of complex and varied tool use, according to a study publishing May 7 th ...

Many younger people know the pain of trying to teach an older person how to print a PDF or navigate the internet. But, of course, some people keep with the times and still learn how to use new tools ...

Human communication is a complex weave of words and gestures — a mix of vocal and visual signals. "People use vocal and visual communication in a very rich and combined way," says Joseph Mine, a ...

Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...

Learn more about how researchers have discovered that chimps can combine calls in multiple ways to create new meanings, remarkably similar to the way we combine sounds and words into sentences. From ...

Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be essential for the evolution of complex and varied tool use, according to a new study. Chimpanzees ...

(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) Humans can continue learning throughout their entire lifespan. It has been hypothesized that this ability is responsible for the extraordinary flexibility with which humans ...