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`Junk DNA is all that separates you from chimps`

Last Updated: Sunday, October 30, 2011, 18:27

Do you know what separates you from a chimpanzee? A tiny bit of "junk DNA", scientists say.

Chimps like to help others: Study

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 9, 2011, 21:23

Female chimpanzees like to spontaneously help others rather than act selfishly, suggesting altruism may not be a uniquely human trait.

Chimpanzees `grieve for loved ones`

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 11:54

Scientists have always thought that rituals and emotions associated with loss of a loved one were unique to humans and marked them out from animal kingdom.

Chimpanzees use wood and stone tools to chop food

Last Updated: Friday, December 25, 2009, 23:41

In a discovery that further affirms the fact that chimpanzees are very much like humans, Brit researchers have found primates in Africa jungles.

Like humans, wild chimpanzees too have cultural differences

Last Updated: Friday, October 23, 2009, 17:40

Scientists have found evidence that chimpanzees living in the wild have pre-existing cultural knowledge.