Scientists screened great ape museum specimens for DNA viruses, revealing insights into viral evolution and host-virus ...

They found that just like humans, the apes’ attention moved back and forth between agent and patient, which implies that they ...

Researchers describe a link between genetic relatedness and sophisticated tool use in primates in East and Central Africa, ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

The bones they found in the sand were a clue that something more was buried beneath the surface. When a team of excavators in ...

Take a closer look at your hands—they carry millions of years of evolutionary history, connecting you to our closest primate ...