A chimp named Santino at a Swedish zoo seems to be forcing a more nuanced picture of what types of anticipation and planning our closest relatives are capable of.

Just ten years ago, the prevailing view was that the modern human mind suddenly gelled in Europe some 35,000 years ago. Alison Brooks and her colleague Sally McBrearty have challenged that notion.

Researcher Brian Hare is an advocate for eliminating the chimpanzee pet trade. In the wake of the chimp attack, Brian explains the science behind his stance.

Anthropologists recently announced they’ve discovered the first example of footprints from the early human species Homo erectus.

Gustavus Adolphus College hosted a conference last October focused squarely on the idea of “The Human Spark.” We've met with many of the speakers.

Larry Engel discusses the challenges and joys of filming Alan with the chimps at the North Carolina Zoo.

One of the earliest things American children are taught is how to count items out loud. But how much do we understand about numbers before we learn this vocabulary?

We went to the North Carolina Zoo to meet the chimpanzees -- and evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare. Here's what happened...

British geneticist Steve Jones has lately made the provocative assertion that human evolution is coming to its end. What do you think?

Watch Tanya Chartrand describe what it was like for her as a scientist to be involved in a television shoot for "The Human Spark."