Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...

The idea of a missing evolutionary link between humans and apes is both compelling and persistent, but the truth is more ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

A new study from Indiana University discovered that bonobos, humans’ closest living relatives, make similar vocalizations ...

Rather than chasing grammar in animals, a more grounded approach asks what cognitive difference might explain the gap ...

A recent study challenges the long-held belief that gorillas primarily live on the ground. Researchers discovered that ...

A 2011 analysis of some of A. sediba's bones showed a combination of human and more apelike traits, like a snapshot of evolution in action.

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Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...