A new study of two-million-year-old tooth enamel has revealed surprising genetic diversity in Paranthropus robustus, a ...

Researchers reported that the animals are capable of making very deliberate gestures to communicate their desire for more.

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most ...

Analysis - South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school ...

The “aquatic ape hypothesis,” while controversial, suggests that interaction with coastal environments and marine resources played a significant role in human evolution.

A recent study challenges the long-held belief that gorillas primarily live on the ground. Researchers discovered that ...

Studying Apes to Understand Humans Better Around 5–7 million years ago, a common ancestor existed between humans and two other great apes, chimpanzees and bonobos. These common ancestors had ...

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

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that gorillas spend much more time in the trees than previously thought.