The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...
Footprints from two hominin species found in Kenya suggest they lived and interacted together over a million years ago. Over ...
Research indicates that the complex behaviors used in human language and tool making, such as organizing actions into sequences, may have evolved in our common ancestors with chimpanzees. This study ...
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) ...
A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes diverged millions of years ago.
Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...
The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers – they all provide a continuous stream of ...
Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26th in the ...
Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...
Chimpanzees use tools in sequences, planning and adapting actions like humans. This suggests the roots of complex human ...
Footprints from 1.5mil years ago made by two different species of human ancestors were made within hours on the same spot—a ...
They found that just like humans, the apes’ attention moved back and forth between agent and patient, which implies that they ...