In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Summary: Great apes track events involving agents and patients, like humans, suggesting shared cognitive mechanisms. When watching video clips, apes alternated their gaze between agents (e.g., a cat) ...

Take a closer look at your hands—they carry millions of years of evolutionary history, connecting you to our closest primate ...

Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26 in the ...

Researchers found that when watching someone interact with something, humans and apes alternate attention between the two ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

In the new study, Zollikofer and his team examined several teeth that were uncovered over 20 years ago in the Caucasus ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood ... Then, as the amount of information to be ...

The thinking of early theorists was that our evolution was a coordinated, linear process. Our ancestors’ brains grew steadily ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26th in the ...