Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

Beyond the loss of species, the researchers also documented considerable shifts in the types of species that persist under ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...