A new study shows monkeys can perceive and sync to a musical beat, challenging assumptions about rhythm, evolution, and ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin spoke to Live Science about how human consciousness evolved.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the ...

Amna Nawaz: We often talk about human origins as the evolution of man, but what if we saw it as the evolution of woman? A new book argues for a better understanding of our beginnings, with critical ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

ANTH copy 39088019968007 gift of Rusty Russell. "In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...

Once upon a time, human evolution was almost exclusively concerned with fossils, prehistoric artifacts, and comparative anatomy. In other words, you had to rely on fossilized remains of pre-humans, ...

Scientists are digging into one of evolution’s strangest puzzles — why only certain creatures developed minds that know they ...