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 ...

Cambridge and Oxford researchers propose the placenta drove human evolution by shaping our large, social brains.

Since the Scopes trial in 1925, Science News has reported on legislative attempts to undermine the teaching of evolution.

Great apes began to diverge from other primates about 25 million years ago, according to eastern African fossil records.

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 ...

We delight in the possibility that dolphins tell stories or that apes can ponder the future. We are social and thinking creatures ... This may have resulted in the co-evolution of human mental ...

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