Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.
The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...
Research indicates that the complex behaviors used in human language and tool making, such as organizing actions into ...
Summary: Great apes track events involving agents and patients, like humans, suggesting shared cognitive mechanisms. When watching video clips, apes alternated their gaze between agents (e.g., a cat) ...
Take a closer look at your hands—they carry millions of years of evolutionary history, connecting you to our closest primate ...
A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved ...
Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...
Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...
Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26th in the ...
Footprints from 1.5mil years ago made by two different species of human ancestors were made within hours on the same spot—a ...
You see a cat chasing a mouse. You probably don’t realize it, but as soon as you catch sight of this scene unfolding, your brain makes a key distinction between the cat and the mouse: It identifies ...
In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...