The research challenges the long-held belief that only Homo sapiens had the capacity to thrive in extreme environments.

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus – which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa – ate very little to no ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI ...

New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

Published in the Journal of Human Evolution, the research showed how chimpanzees select stones for nut-cracking ... From how ...

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa ...

BEIJING -- A collaborative team of scientists from China and other countries has mapped the most refined chimpanzee brain ...