Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on ...

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

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Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

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 ...

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

Humans from different cultures speak to their children using a form of speech known as “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. Though to us, it may seem natural to communicate directly with our ...

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.

Humans What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and ...