Scientists debate whether true reverse evolution is possible, but this species of tomatoes on the western Galápagos Islands ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...

Dartmouth researchers report that apes and early humans evolved more flexible shoulders and elbows than monkeys to safely get out of trees. For early humans, these versatile appendages would have ...

Stock image of bonobos grooming. A scientist posits that kissing in humans could have its origins in the "final kiss" movement in ape grooming.

They then compared the scans to living and fossil apes and humans from Africa, Europe, and Asia. [Related: Foraging in trees might have pushed human ancestors to walk on two feet .] ...

Humans' closest relatives are other apes, such as chimpanzees and bonobos. In fact, we share nearly 99% of the same genes, or letters in our DNA, with chimpanzees.

Through all of Science there is very little that we are surer about than the fact that evolution is real and happens every day. No single scientific theory has prevailed through the same amount of ...

Distinctly different patterns were observed between apes and modern humans. Using this data, the researchers constructed three-dimensional models of the hands of the respective species.

The other hypothesis is the high-extinction ghost model, which holds that the African ape evolution followed a similar trajectory to that of hominins. The apes diversified and dispersed into new ...