“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

A new discovery at an archaeological site has led researchers to believe that humans lived in rainforests much earlier than ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

The results indicate that having a wider pelvis reduces the risk of complications during birth, but results in slower walking ...

DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...

Tech is evolving too fast for human biology. Mental health trends show we're struggling. To survive, we must speed up ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Scientists have fully sequenced the genomes ... will pave the way to a deeper and more refined understanding of human evolution in the context of apes, not by delivering definitive answers ...

Researchers believe that by analyzing bonobo calls, they will gather more insights about the evolution of language.