The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

The theory that East Africa is the most likely birthplace for human beings has persisted over many years. A new find, however ...

FRIEDRICH ENGELS’S essay on the origins of our species is today recognised as a foundational text, not just of Marxism, but of today’s physical and social anthropology.Like most of Engels’s ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

These tails vary widely by anatomy and purpose—from the grippy tails of opossums to the balancing tails of kangaroos to the ...

A newly discovered ape ancestor in Egypt suggests great apes may have evolved beyond East Africa, reshaping understanding of ...

Outside of humans, orangutans are the primate outlier when it comes to long childhoods, reaching adulthood at eight to 10 ...

Researchers say that while territorial disputes between animal groups are well known, wars within such groups are extremely ...

Analysis of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity ...

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The Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda have divided themselves into two main factions, and dozens of deaths have been recorded since ...

The Ethiopian government on Tuesday announced the discovery of ancient Homo sapiens fossils and stone tools dating back about 100,000 years, which it said provides "important new insights" into human ...