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New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

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This created a catalogue that identified 22 discrete facial expressions. These included expressions from a range of aggressive, friendly, playful and alert interactions.

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

Horses have a lot of facial muscles, like primates. Serhii Hromov/Shutterstock. We observed groups of domestic horses out at pasture. Whenever they interacted with one another we would hit record ...

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A new study from Indiana University discovered that bonobos, humans’ closest living relatives, make similar vocalizations ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

Cambridge and Oxford researchers propose the placenta drove human evolution by shaping our large, social brains.

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