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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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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Alex Snowdon explains why the oppression of women is not eternal or natural and is bound up with class exploitation Karl Marx ...

This finding from the Max Planck Institute challenges long-standing ideas about the anatomy and evolution of gorillas ... that large body size and a largely folivorous diet in apes are also consistent ...