Chimps Agree: A Bird in Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
Chimpanzees are downright conservative when it comes to trading for better food. 05.14.2008
Has Science Found a Way to End All Wars?
Given adequate food, fuel, and gender equality, mass conflict just might disappear. 03.13.2008
George Schaller's Grand Plan to Save the Marco Polo Sheep
"Obviously humans are evolution’s greatest mistake," says the conservationist. 02.21.2008
84. Chimps Show Altruistic Streak
01.15.2008
Whatever Happened To... the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis?
How else to explain naked skin, enlarged mammaries, subcutaenous fat... 12.05.2007
Reflections of a Naked Ape
Desmond Morris observes the life of Desmond Morris. 11.21.2007
The Simplistic Manifesto
Intelligent design misses the point. Again. 07.02.2007
Was Lucy a Brutal Brawler?
These legs were made for fighting. 06.26.2007
Raw Data: The Ancient Chimp Stone Age
Chimps created tools like humans' over 4,000 years ago. 05.23.2007
The Discover Interview: Jane Goodall
For 47 years, Goodall has studied, communicated with, and lived with chimps. 03.28.2007
Bondo Mystery Ape
Proves to be a chimpanzee with unusual habits. 03.15.2007
Raw Data: Scents and Scents-Ability
Our clumsy noses won't win any sniffing contests, but we can use them to find chocolate. 03.15.2007
Your Color Gives You Away
Meet the emotionally naked ape. 06.25.2006
You Say "Ook Ook," I Say "Aak Aak"
Are monkey calls the simian version of local dialects? 06.25.2006
The 2% Difference
Now that scientists have decoded the chimpanzee genome, we know that 98 percent of our DNA is the same. So how can we be so different? 04.04.2006
The Year in Science: Genetics
01.08.2006
Gorillas Use Tools Too
Big doesn't necessarily mean stupid. 10.21.2005
The List Gets Longer: New Primates Found
04.28.2005
22: Proteins Make the Primate
01.03.2005
Monkeys Take a Swipe at AIDS
09.30.2004
Gorillas Learn to Keep the Peace
07.25.2004
Discover Dialogue: Primatologist Jane Goodall
We're not the only creatures with personalities, minds, and feelings. 05.29.2004
Meet the Primate Parent
04.21.2004
Monkeys Show They Know What They Know
03.28.2004
Good-bye, Snowflake
02.05.2004
Anthropology
01.02.2004
The Hardy Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
The scientist who destroyed our quaint concept of what a mother ought to be comes to terms with her own life 03.01.2003
Late Retirement for the Space Chimps
01.01.2003
An Embarrassment of Chimps
The U.S. is the last Western country that still uses them for medical research. 05.01.2002
The Biology of . . . Handedness
Studies of chimpanzees finally give southpaws a fair shake 01.01.2002
Steven Wise He Speaks for the Speechless
09.01.2001
Homo Intoxicatus
06.01.2000
Aping Culture
Chimpanzees speak in dialects, invent odd grooming styles, and drum better than most kids in marching bands. So what's left to separate them from us? 05.01.2000
Monkey See, Human Do?
09.01.1999
Ambling Australopithecine
11.01.1998
A Briquette a Day
07.01.1998
Monkey Allies
08.01.1997
Virtual Gorillas
04.01.1997
A Marmoset With Appendages
01.01.1997
The Tarzan Syndrome
Only apes, it seems, alone among all the animals, can truly distinguish themselves fromt he world around them. But only the naked apes, apparently, can conceive of not just self but other. 11.01.1996
Mega-monkey
09.01.1996
First, Kill the Babies
In the fierce evolutionary battle to pass on one's genes, says one controversial hypothesis, everyone else is a potential competitor--even the infants. 09.01.1996
Monkeys With Zest
07.01.1996
The Graying of the Troops
Baboons who live to a ripe old age are the ones who know what friends are for. 03.01.1996
Tooling Through the Trees
11.01.1995
Apes of Wrath
08.01.1995
On the Rights of an Ape
02.01.1994
Waist-Deep in Silverbacks
03.01.1993
The Young and the Reckless
Every day young primates leave the comfort of home to live through weeks and months of abuse at the hands of beastly strangers. Why in the world do they--and we--do it? 03.01.1993