Chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Zambia have been found to have developed the “seemingly pointless” behavior of dangling blades ...

Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their ...

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

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

A study showed that sex-based hierarchies in primates are more fluid than has been assumed, raising questions about the ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state in the country to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

The baby brain is a great gateway for language to be transferred from brain to brain. All the main connections in the brain ...

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...