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.

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 ...

It will take more fossil discoveries to sort that out. The human branch of the evolutionary tree, called Homo, is thought to have arisen from a group of ancient species called australopithecines.

Researchers show that even large silverback gorillas spend a substantial amount of time in trees Bwindi mountain gorillas in Uganda and western lowland gorillas in Gabon spend significantly more time ...

An international research team has mapped the genomes of six ape species, revealing genetic distinctions that shed light on primate evolution. The study provides a deeper understanding of human and ...

An international research team has mapped the genomes of six ape species, revealing genetic distinctions that shed light on primate evolution. The study, published in Nature, provides a deeper ...

The story of human evolution usually starts at the point our distant ancestors began to separate from the apes, whose own ancestors are traceable from at least 35 million years ago and are well ...