Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a prehistoric cave dating back up to 400,000 years, revealing evidence of complex ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...

Ancient scrolls, carbonized by Mount Vesuvius's eruption, are now being read thanks to cutting-edge technology. Scientists ...

Laughter is universal among humans. Researchers have found that our closest relatives, apes, also laugh, and do it with a ...

New research challenges the notion that humans have the hardest childbirth among animals, revealing that many primates, ...

Scientists reveal Afro-textured hair, common in African populations, is a genetic trait likely shaped by evolutionary ...

But it is a fascinating story about the evolution of not just laughter among great apes, but of the origins of our own vocal ...

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species ...