Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet ...
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) ...
Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...
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.
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 ...
Footprints from two hominin species found in Kenya suggest they lived and interacted together over a million years ago. Over ...
Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published November 26th in the ...
The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers – they all provide a continuous stream of ...
They say the discovery will provide more insight into human evolution and how species cooperated and competed with one ...