The knee has undergone major changes to its size and shape, not only to allow early humans to walk upright, but also to ...

Now researchers from King’s College London (KCL) have found that the small bone, which is buried in the tendon behind the ...

"Human evolution has occurred both due to, and in spite of, the placenta. Every pregnancy, unthinkingly, must navigate a ...

A research team, including academics from the University of Warwick, has suggested that apes can understand the communicative ...

The Hammerschmiede fossil site in southern Germany has yielded finds from about 11.5 million years ago that have rewritten ...

Often, the dancing ape looked over her shoulder or otherwise checked to make sure her viewer — another gibbon, or a human ...

New research suggests psilocybin mushrooms may have shaped human consciousness, supporting the Stoned Ape Hypothesis and ...

Some animals communicate with others and use a few tools, which may be signs of culture. But humans have hundreds of millions ...

Following someone’s gaze may seem like a simple act, but it has profound implications for the evolution of intelligence. And ...

How we do research matters just as much as what we do. Understanding something as complex as human evolution in Africa ...

Since their invention in the 1920s, jungle gyms and monkey bars have become both fixtures of playgrounds and symbols of childhood injury that anxious caretakers want removed. Anthropologists mark 100 ...

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” director Wes Ball’s 2024 stand-alone sequel to a rebooted trilogy of a famed ...