Apes can tell when humans lack knowledge. They help by pointing to hidden treats. This suggests they understand others' ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Picture writing the numbers 1 to 5 in a horizontal line, from smallest to largest. Where did you put 1? If you placed 1 on ...

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...