For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

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

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

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

All great apes exchange calls of some sort, whether it’s an orangutan’s hoot, a bonobo’s chatter, a gorilla’s grunt, or a ...

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

This overview argues that the story of human evolution is being reshaped by a series of recent discoveries rather than by one ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

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

Is there really such a thing as human nature? The answer lies between two old extremes, and getting it right shapes how we face AI, authoritarianism, and climate.

A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...

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