Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

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

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

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

New research from Oxford University has revealed chimpanzee "engineering" capabilities that aid them in retrieving insects as ...

In an exciting first that highlights a mysterious aspect of human technological evolution, chimpanzees impressively engineer tools to fish for termites in Tanzania. For chimpanzees, termites might be ...

Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has taken a fresh look at data from the brains of humans, chimpanzees, ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

According to British playwright James Phillips, inspiration can be found anywhere: a photograph, a fragment of a story, a ...