This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like ...

The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared ... We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

A flood of comparative genomic data is resulting in the identification of human lineage-specific (HLS) sequences. As apes are our closest evolutionary relatives, transgenic introduction of HLS ...

The site, an eroded limestone cave called Malapa, is in a region already so famous for its ancient human fossils that ... of Missouri who studies the evolution of apes and early hominins (a ...

The prevailing narrative in human history is that humanity emerged from Africa, which is true to an extent, but there may be more to the story.

Intelligent Design on Trial" reveals how genetic evidence helped to confirm an important component of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection: the common ancestry of humans and apes.

Contrary to the popularised image of mankind ‘arising’ from apes ... getting crowded out as the human jaw gets smaller with a soft diet. However sometimes evolution finds a good use for ...

While our current research has shed light on the evolution of the human heart, our work analyzing the hearts of endangered ...