Early apes to 'hominization' (around 35m to 8m years ago) The story of human evolution usually starts at the point our distant ancestors began to separate from the apes, whose own ancestors are ...

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

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

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

“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 ...

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

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...