It helped us reach our “prime.” The Progression of Man apparently wasn’t as gradual as once thought. UK researchers found ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

A statistical analysis of our closest extinct relatives has found our prehistoric ancestors underwent a bit of a growth spurt ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Laughter is universal among humans. Researchers have found that our closest relatives, apes, also laugh, and do it with a ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Great apes and humans all laugh with a steady, even rhythm, and a new study finds it has barely changed in 15 million years.

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

This potentially all-female burial site opens up new questions regarding Homo naledi’s culture and social structure. If the ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans. One of the ...