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

Analysis of fossils recovered in the 1990s in Greece supports the idea that the apes and ancestors of humans evolved in ...

Behind the scenes at a Chicago zoo, chimpanzees who spent years entertaining humans are learning to befriend their own kind.

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

While Kingston is not technically in Surrey, it is easy enough to get to. As it is just over the border, it is a quick drive ...

Humans, it turns out, possess much higher metabolic rates than other mammals, including our close relatives, apes and ...

A study comparing fossil skulls and great ape anatomy reveals how temporal lobes evolved in response to social complexity and ...

"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something.

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 ...

The development at Hamsterley Forest could create up to 135 full-time jobs and contribute £6m every year to the region’s ...

The institute brings together scientists from a wide range of disciplines who take an interdisciplinary approach to gain new insights into the history ... population genomic analyses of various great ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...