Humans differ from other primates due to their relatively large, permanent breasts, and their development has so far not been conclusively explained. According to a study conducted at the University ...

The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years of fossil and ...

Last Friday, onstage at a major AI summit in India, Sam Altman wanted to address what he called an “unfair” criticism. The ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head.

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Book of the Day: For serious readers willing to grapple with its complexity, it offers not definitive answers but a radical ...

The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...