Nature - Neuronal recordings of people under anaesthesia show that their brains are processing words and sounds.

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Charles Darwin theorized that a sound, smell or color that's attractive to one species can be preferred by others too. A new study finds humans and animals do share preferences for certain sounds.

A 1981 publication showed how cooperators can prevail over defectors, laying the foundation for how the evolution of cooperation between unrelated individuals is studied.

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We present the social origins of consciousness hypothesis, according to which the ability to coordinate with group members was the original adaptive function of consciousness. We offer three arguments...

The brain doesn't just recognize the human voice. A study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that certain areas of our auditory cortex respond specifically to the vocalizations of chimpanzees, ...

For the first time, scientists have published a detailed report of adoption in these great apes.

Sequence organization is a fundamental feature of human communication, shaping our interactions. This organization underlies interactions with and without language, appears early in human development ...

Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.

The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too.

Sonya Pashchevskaya and colleagues document a potentially fatal attack of a male bonobo by a group of females.

Vanna/Ronnie lost her mother Veli when she was between 4.2 and 5 years old (pictured together on the left). Subsequently, Vanna/Ronnie was seen traveling with and sleeping in the same nest as her old...

Award-winning primatologist who established world’s longest-running chimp study still lectured on conservation and climate even over age of 91

As the power of AI grows, we need to have evidence of its sentience. That is why we must return to the minds of animals

A series of hide-and-seek experiments with a bonobo named Kanzi shows for the first time that apes can mentally keep track of multiple familiar humans at once, even when they are out of sight.

Humans are adept at navigating the social world in part because we flexibly map the locations and identities of agents around us. While field studies suggest primates can track individual conspecifics...

Other species exhibit capabilities that were once thought to be exclusive to Homo sapiens

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Large Language Models (LLMs),such as ChatGPT, are increasingly used in research, ranging from simple writing assistance to complex data annotation tasks. Recently, some research has suggested that LLM...

Learning & Behavior - Townrow and Krupenye (PNAS, 122(6), Article e2412450122, 2025) found that bonobos understand the mental states of others and can attribute ignorance to a social partner....

The feeling of a body as belonging to oneself is called the sense of body ownership and the centerpiece of conscious experience. Kawashima and Ikeda investigated the sense of body ownership in an octo...

Noticing how ones' outcomes compare to your partner’s can help you decide who to cooperate with, promoting cooperative relations that are beneficial f…