Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird species, University of Utah biologists have completed an ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found.

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

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

Researchers exploring the mating behaviors of Brazil's endangered northern muriquis have utilized fecal DNA analysis to ...