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Aping our cousins

St Andrews scientists have found that young children use the same gestures as chimpanzees and gorillas.

Date
11 September 2018
Category
Research

£1.6m ‘living links’ to human evolution

CAPTION: An important mission of the new Study Centre will be to make experimental studies of primate behaviour, like tool use, accessible to the general public.

Date
8 November 2004
Category
Research

Monkeying around

The bigger the brain, the stronger chance that a primate will deceive its peers.

Date
29 June 2004
Category
Research

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