A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason ...

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Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

While humans share over 95% of their genome with chimpanzees, our brains are far more complex due to differences in gene expression.

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Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of ...

New research suggests at least some key distinctions date back earlier than previously estimated, hinting that modern and ...

Light helps explains the evolution of our skin color, why some of us have curly hair, and the size of our eyes. And light ...