Ape Atlas Unifies 18 Years of Cognition Data to Trace Human Intelligence
Researchers released EVApeCognition, the largest open-access dataset of great-ape cognition, compiling 262 datasets from 150 publications over 18 years (2001–2020) to enable cross-study analyses, data standardization across nearly 100 institutions and 81 apes, and new insights into the evolution of human intelligence; published in Nature (April 2026) with a GitHub data repository to support education, meta-analyses, and AI research.