Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

Early humans weren’t just walking upright—they were climbing trees and crafting stone tools in a surprising blend of ancient ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

Publishing in Cell Genomics, researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the co-evolution of ... in the liver of modern humans compared to other apes. "In anatomically ...

It wasn’t just today’s bodies that told the story. Ancient DNA backed it up. The researchers traced the variant through time.

There is still debate, researchers say, over whether the behavior is instinctual or based in more complex thought or even ...

Scientists were able to determine the biological sex of the Paranthropus robustus specimens by analyzing specific protein ...

Accelerated evolution refers to situations in which ... wherein there are known or apparent differences between humans and great apes, but additionally topics for which popular wisdom about ...

naledi are also found with many other bones of their skeleton that preserve ape-like features ... it is clear that throughout human evolution there were different ways of combining enhanced ...