World Chimpanzee Day highlights why our closest living relatives are vital to science, forests, and understanding human ...

The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain - The human chin has long been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose ...

Chimpanzees showed a remarkable attraction to crystals, choosing them over ordinary stones and studying them with intense ...

This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between hominids and hominins along the way. Kayleigh moves through major splits ...

New research from the University of St Andrews and Dartmouth College examines the crucial, but until now, overlooked, role of ‘scrumped’ fruit in the lives of great apes and the origins of human ...

The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned ...

We live in profoundly anti-human times. Progressive cultural movements across a broad array of issues, from bioethics to environmentalism, seek to push us off the pedestal of unique value in both ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...

Across the forests of central and western Africa, two of the most remarkable primates on Earth live very different lives ...