Circles, triangles and squares. One of the first things we learn as children are basic geometric shapes. And they stay with us throughout our lives. Maybe it’s that sense of familiarity that makes ...

Baboons and macaques appear to use some of the same mental strategies as humans when matching shapes, suggesting that the foundations of geometry evolved in a common ancestor.

An international team of researchers found that rhesus macaques perform geometric shape recognition tasks at roughly the same level as four- to five-year-old children ...

Monkeys have been found to understand basic geometric problems in a similar way to humans. Geometry is the field of study that investigates the properties of shapes and space. The research team led by ...

Neuroscientists are exploring whether shapes like squares and rectangles — and our ability to recognize them — are part of what makes our species special. Credit...Video by Yoshi Sodeoka Supported by ...