Apes share the human ability to imagine and pretend, suggests new research that included a series of tea party experiments.

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 ...

Scientists wondered whether Kanzi had the capacity to play pretend – that is, act like something is real while knowing it's ...

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

And chimps outperform humans. I once watched Matsuzawa show videos of his experiments with Ai and Ayumu at a conference attended by the world’s leading chimp researchers, including Jane Goodall, ...

Luella and Winthrop Niles Kellogg believed they could use their own child in a chilling experiment involving a chimpanzee. Toddler Donald Kellogg was just 10 months old when he became one of the ...

Ever find yourself people-watching in a cafe, or tuning into reality TV just to see who's arguing with who? You're not alone—and it turns out, you might have more in common with chimpanzees than you ...

1) That the knowledge gained must be necessary to advance the public’s health; 2) There must be no other research model by which the knowledge could be obtained, and the research cannot be ethically ...

Source: Ruben van Kuik, via Wikimedia Commons. How do scientists study the evolution of human culture and cognition? There aren’t any early hominins around—but there are chimpanzees, our closest ...