Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.

When it comes to understanding geometry, a lack of formal education may be one of the only things holding back our primate relatives. Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University led a team to investigate ...

With their ability to use tools, remember faces and even learn how to communicate with humans through sign language, nonhuman ...

Human understanding of geometry may stretch deep into our evolutionary past. "What surprised us wasn't just that monkeys could do the task. It was that monkeys, children and adults seemed to think ...

Summary: A research team demonstrated that non-human primates (olive baboons and Rhesus macaques), young human children, and adult humans share an evolutionarily ancient intuition for two-dimensional ...

Monkeys apparently don't need a math class to get the gist of geometry. A new study in the Proceedings of the National ...

The study provides the first evidence that baboons and macaques share the same geometric intuitions present in young humans.

Geometry is an important branch of mathematics, which we use to understand the properties of 2D and 3D space such as distance, shape, size and position. We use geometry every day: cutting paper to ...