Human opinion formation has evolved to favor survival and social cohesion. Understanding this enables us to develop more ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

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

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 ...

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

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles. Earlier work tied those sounds to a common evolutionary origin. The new ...

"There is a significant difference in intelligence between monkeys and apes," Becky Malinsky, curator of primates at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, told Live ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

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