Jane Goodall’s research at Gombe Stream National Park revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzee intelligence. In 1960, she observed a chimp named David Greybeard stripping leaves from twigs to ...

Is this pensive-looking chimp contemplating a new idea? An incredible new study proves the primate has a mind closer to humans than we previously thought. ondrejprosicky - stock.adobe.com They’re not ...

Recent research has turned the spotlight on our closest primate relatives, the chimpanzees, revealing their ability to engage in metacognition, a cognitive process once thought to be exclusive to ...

Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking that was once considered uniquely human. In a series of experiments designed ...

For something so admired, so synonymous with merit, the concept of intelligence is remarkably poorly understood. Our society operates on the assumption that people with greater intelligence deserve ...

We all know that chimpanzees and other animals are extremely intelligent and deeply emotional. And now a recent and extremely detailed study shows just how smart chimpanzees can be and that there are ...

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 ...

Few people who lived through the 20th century, including philosophers, scientists and thinkers, so forcefully altered the human intellectual landscape through their lives and work as did Washoe, a ...

When people talk to each other, their conversations usually include many fast twists. Humans do not naturally talk in Shakespearean soliloquies, but by regularly interrupting and wildly gesticulating.