Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26 in the ...

Summary: Great apes track events involving agents and patients, like humans, suggesting shared cognitive mechanisms. When watching video clips, apes alternated their gaze between agents (e.g., a cat) ...

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Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26th in the ...

Reportedly, Dr. Johanson returned to camp in 1974 with some of Lucy’s fossilized remains, and as team celebrated, someone ...

Researchers found that when watching someone interact with something, humans and apes alternate attention between the two ...

A set of fossilised teeth from a young hominid, dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, has sparked significant ...

They found that just like humans, the apes’ attention moved back and forth between agent and patient, which implies that they ...

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...