Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that ...

When we think of evolution, we think of slow, gradual changes in animal and plant species over millions, perhaps even hundreds of millions, of years.It took humans, for example, an estimated six ...

Fossils discovered at an early Miocene site in Kenya include a new type of early ape and offer clues about the environment inhabited by human ancestors.

About 150 scientists gathered at the Society of Catholic Scientists conference for talks that touched on the Thomistic notion ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don’t? It’s one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

NORs have changed location throughout ape evolution, meaning that the chromosomes ... the expansions of these regions across different ape ancestors. Duplications can change gene expression ...

Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape similar in ... paved the way for the evolution of Homo sapiens. Bipedal Australopithecus are the ancestors of modern man.

And, the most hotly debated question: Did the apes who were our human ancestors originate in Africa or Eurasia ... This is despite many known African fossil sites from that period. A Continuing ...