“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...

From grooming rituals to soaking in hot baths, Japan’s snow monkeys blur the line between animal instinct and human-like behavior. This exploration uncovers the biology, social intelligence, and ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions ...

During registration season, students are looking for classes that will spark their interest. Many are seeking opportunities ...

In a recently published, PNAS study, professor Andreas Neider and his team found that crows and rhesus macaques take mental ...

Scientists have discovered that hundreds of genes behave differently in male and female brains, potentially influencing sex-biased brain disorders.

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say.

Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to change their minds, research shows.

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...