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Chimpanzees’ ability to combine vocalizations might be more ancient than previously thought, study suggests

(IN BRIEF) Researchers from the Universities of Zurich and Warwick have found evidence that chimpanzees may possess the ability to combine vocalizations into larger communicatively meaningful structures, similar to humans. The study shows that the ability to combine words into … Read the full press release

University of St Andrews: Chimpanzees adapt their behaviour to match the group, just as humans do

Fife, Scotland, 21-Jun-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Chimpanzees adapt their behaviour to match the group, just as humans do, according to new research led by the University of St Andrews. A new study published in Current Biology found that a particularly rare kind … Read the full press release

Study: Like chimpanzees, humans may console their threatened peers out of empathy

Aalborg, Denmark, 02-Jun-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Like chimpanzees, humans may console their threatened peers out of empathy, according to a study published May 31, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard from the Netherlands Institute for the … Read the full press release