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A group of Bonobos

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Male masturbation in primates evolved to cut chance of catching STIs

Masturbation in male primates seems to have evolved to boost reproductive success and cut the chance of getting a sexually transmitted infection, but the picture isn’t so clear for females

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Wild African primates have flame retardants in their faeces

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Unlike in other primates, the human voice box has lost small tissue structures called vocal membranes, which may have been involved in the evolution of speech

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Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

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Dryopithecus

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Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history

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An extreme example of facial asymmetry in a female Virunga mountain gorilla cranium (Tayna, individual GP.148), shown as a three-dimensional surface model with texture. This individual was not included in the sample as she was dentally immature at the time of death, but she exhibits an extreme version of the asymmetric pattern documented in this study.

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Mountain gorilla inbreeding has distorted their facial features

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Rhesus macaques

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Living through a hurricane accelerated the ageing process for monkeys

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A Black Howler monkey

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Howler monkeys navigate using adaptable mental maps, just like humans

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Blurred picture of dead albino chimp

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First known wild chimpanzee with albinism was killed by other chimps

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Puzzle-solving great apes: The shared abilities underpinning language

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Puzzle-solving great apes: The shared abilities underpinning language

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Janis Carter and Lucy

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Lucy, the Human Chimp review: The ape that was raised like a human

Lucy, the Human Chimp is a documentary that follows the story of a chimp that lived like a human and a human that lived like a chimp

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Female monkeys call to males when they see a predator approaching

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Chimpanzees seem to 'speak' in sentences of three or more calls

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Orangutans create new ways to communicate with each other in captivity

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Chimps have local culture differences when it comes to eating termites

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