Apes Understand That Some Things Are All in Your Head Humans aren’t the only ones who can tell when someone’s beliefs don’t match reality DURHAM, N.C. -- We all know that the way someone sees the world, and the way it really is, aren...
Even Preschoolers Play Fair, But Chimps? Not So Much. Tomasello shares work in celebration of his election to National Academy of Sciences DURHAM, N.C. -- Chimps don’t care if they’re caught cheating. But preschoolers do,...
Why Your Ancestors Would Have Aced the Long Jump First primates were built for leaping, fossil ankle suggests DURHAM, N.C. -- A 52-million-year-old ankle fossil suggests our prehuman ancestors were high-...
Live-In Grandparents Helped Human Ancestors Get a Safer Night’s Sleep Study of hunter-gatherers suggests variation in sleep may have helped our ancestors survive the night DURHAM, N.C. -- A sound night’s sleep grows more elusive as people get older. But what...
Microbes Give Meerkat Gangs Their Signature Scents Their musky odor comes from the action of bacteria. DURHAM, N.C. -- Body odor. To some it's an embarrassing nuisance. But to meerkats, it's...
Shanen Ganapathee: Exploring the Intersection of Art and Science Shanen Ganapathee Hometown: Rose-Hill,...
Building a Virtual Ark for Lemurs X-ray scanning immortalizes endangered primates in the digital afterlife, in 3-D DURHAM, N.C. -- If you're a medical student, obtaining a human cadaver for learning anatomy...
Researchers Win $1.2M to Study Social Mobility in Meerkats International team from the U.S., Canada and the U.K. awarded a 3-year grant DURHAM, N.C. -- To learn what power dynamics mean for health, consider the meerkat. ...
