In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...
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 sequences, may have evolved in our common ancestors with chimpanzees. This study ...
Nonetheless, there is enough consensus to thread the story of human evolution all the way from early apes to modern humanity. Most of this story centres on Africa, of course, where countries such as ...
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.
Other primates do it too. We – humans and other primates such as monkeys and apes – have something called social knowledge ...
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 ...
This cognitive mechanism is thought to be one of the bases for the evolution of human language, forming both how people think ...