Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don’t? It’s one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind ...

When you imagine the evolution of homosapien it’s easy to imagine our great ape ancestors turning into upright versions and ...

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

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

Our evolutionary advantage over our primate relatives may come down to accelerated genetic expression in just six types of ...

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

To get a sense of when this diversity cropped up during human evolution, the researchers also compared the DNA of modern humans to that of a Neanderthal individual and of a Denisovan, another ...