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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, and continues to capture ...

This is still a commonly used depiction of human evolution, with the famous Progress diagram having been published in a book called "Early Man" in 1965 explaining how we grew from apes to modern ...

The debate over whether she was our ancestor, a grandmother to humanity and the missing link between apes and humans, began instantaneously. Debates over human evolution weren’t confined to the ...

Reportedly, Dr. Johanson returned to camp in 1974 with some of Lucy’s fossilized remains, and as team celebrated, someone ...