Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.
The human family tree is becoming harder to fit into the categories scientists have used for decades. Research from Monash ...
A genetic method found that people worldwide carry DNA from an unidentified archaic human population that mixed with modern human ancestors in Africa. Oceanians also inherited traces of a far older ...
New research from the University of St Andrews has developed a novel hypothesis of how firelight was critical to the ...
Uncover 25 shocking new discoveries about our ancient human relatives. From Dragon Man to new Homo sapiens origins, rethink ...
Uncover 25 ancient human discoveries that challenge our understanding of early man. See how new fossils and DNA finds are ...
When a crow responds to a specific person years after a significant encounter, its behavior suggests that the bird may have ...
The study focused on two unusually complete Neanderthal pelvises. The Dederiyeh infant, though only a toddler, already displayed characteristic adult Neanderthal traits, including flaring hip blades ...
Researchers say that human speech was born when our ancient ancestors started gossiping and trading stories around the ...
“The nature, scale, and context of red meat consumption today differ drastically from those of our evolutionary past,” the authors conclude. The dietary flexibility that once helped humans thrive may ...
For years, American universities have been lowering standards in pursuit of racial diversity. In some cases, they blatantly ...
In his new book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, historian Dr Ross Brooks finds that Victorian naturalists can teach us a thing or two about the nature of sex ...