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 ...

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) ...

They found that just like humans, the apes’ attention moved back and forth between agent and patient, which implies that they ...

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

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

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

Researchers believe that the extinct human species lived in small groups, which might have made them susceptible to ...

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

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

Females move to a new community when they reach sexual maturity, but as for whether they want to hear her ideas? That’s ...

Evolution could alter or even eliminate some of the human traits we cherish most, changing forever what it means to be human.