A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

Most ape infants can cling onto their mothers ... Childhood is probably a crucial innovation in human evolution because it creates the opportunity for offspring to learn much more from their ...

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the ... “These are still fairly ape-like, small-brained hominins, that already walked upright but ...

Examining the nature and origin of human intelligence and the intersection with machine intelligence in the past, present and ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known ... “This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the potential to answer crucial questions ...

They used the Harbin skull, also known as 'Dragon Man,' which is a 150,000-year-old nearly complete human skull discovered ... that is shared between African Apes and modern humans, and by ...

Apes can tell when humans lack knowledge. They help by pointing to hidden treats. This suggests they understand others' ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...