Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

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

Innovation often emerges where creativity intersects with technology, driving humanity toward new possibilities. Praveen ...

A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable carnivores spotted in alleyways from Berkeley, Calif., to the Bronx, in New York.

The study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, demonstrates that the process used by a group of chimps to select stones for use as tools appear to resemble what is documented for Oldowan ...

A study published in the Journal of Human Evolution found that chimpanzees select harder stones for nut-cracking tasks, ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

They used the Harbin skull, also known as 'Dragon Man,' which is a 150,000-year-old nearly complete human skull discovered in China in 1933. Paleoartist John Gurche utilized fossils and genetic ...

Researchers have unveiled the face of a long-lost human ancestor, the Denisovans, using the famed Harbin skull—an ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

The authors present new expression analysis software (TEKRABber) to help analyze expression correlations between transposable elements (TEs) and KRAB zinc finger (KRAB-ZNF) genes in experimentaly ...