Chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Zambia have been found to have developed the “seemingly pointless” behavior of dangling blades ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...

Chimpanzees have been observed following “ fashion trends ” in the same way humans might do, research has revealed. Eight ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

It was a massive, thrilling shift in the Jurassic Park paradigm. It was also both a generous invitation to future ...

New research explains how scalp hair grows so long, and how its characteristics helped us thrive.

A Space Odyssey is forever cemented in film history for good reasons. Stanley Kubrick has one of the most significant ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

The baby brain is a great gateway for language to be transferred from brain to brain. All the main connections in the brain ...