The American researcher talks to EL PAÍS about how walking upright was the starting point for our brain enlargement and our ...

The discovery offers new insight into human evolution, particularly between the two early human species, known as hominins — a term for a subdivision of hominids. Hominins are all organisms within the ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

The researchers believe the footprints were made within hours of each other on the shores of an ancient lake in present-day ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

“Humans have increased not only our resting metabolisms beyond what even chimpanzees and monkeys have, but – thanks to our ...

Dr. Johanson and his team were looking for the evolutionary “missing link”… the creature who had evolved from a plain old ape ...

The origin of the hominine lineage—encompassing modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and their ancestors—is one of ...

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

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

You see a cat chasing a mouse. You probably don’t realize it, but as soon as you catch sight of this scene unfolding, your brain makes a key distinction between the cat and the mouse: It identifies ...