Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, ...

Researchers discover that language and Theory of Mind originate in separate brain regions in children, challenging theories of overlapping cognitive development.

His immensely popular, and controversial, 1967 book, “The Naked Ape,” argued that ancient genes, shared with apes, shape our ...

Outside of humans, orangutans are the primate outlier when it comes to long childhoods, reaching adulthood at eight to 10 ...

Unraveling the mystery of human evolution, thirty-five feet in the air. A chimpanzee female (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) sleeps in a nest built in a tree in Uganda's Kibale National Park. The ...

A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the ...

My cats almost never meow at each other, only at me. I learnt that the meow is a sound cats developed for us across ten ...