Are helicopter parents the reason kids don’t turn rebellious until their teenage years, when they finally get some autonomy?

Compared with humans, chimp infants appear to act as daredevils earlier in life, according to a paper published today in ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." That's the longest string of words that Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who scientists raised as a human and taught sign ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

As scientists have studied the chimpanzee, they’ve found more and more similarities between humans and their closest living relatives. But when it comes to the courts, chimps and humans couldn’t be ...

Analysis - Adolescents are known for risky behavior, with teenagers in the U.S. more likely than younger children to die from injury. But what's responsible for this uptick in risk-taking around ...

Adolescent chimpanzees share some of the same risk-taking behaviors as human teens, but they may be less impulsive than their human counterparts, according to research published by the American ...

(AP) - Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered “persons” with human rights, according to the state’s Court of Appeals. That means the owners of the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula will ...