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 ...

Learn more about the origins of language, and how our ancient ancestors may have developed it in a sudden jump rather than ...

Kiyomasa, a 13-year-old western lowland gorilla at Japan's Higashiyama Zoo, has become an internet sensation after a video showed him sitting alone in a thoughtful pose following a reported ...

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies developed independently for 50 years to restore sight and touch are functionally identical, establishing a unified framework that accelerates ...

The Number That Explains Almost Nothing Gorillas and humans share 98.3% of their DNA. That figure comes from genome ...

Once you start seeing natural selection as a constant, omnipresent, and sometimes speedy force, almost everything else in ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species ...

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 ...

A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn't originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North America. Some may have even survived seasonal Arctic conditions by slowing ...

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

Exploring these differences formed the crux of a new study that documented laughing patterns between primates — a very ...