From early on, what has set the human species apart from all others is the ability to direct ever-increasing power toward our ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

In his new book, Roland Ennos offers eye-opening ideas that the importance of physical power and engineering brilliance—rather than intellect—allowed us to dominate the planet.

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

A new analysis argues that this daily work of processing and cooking food helped reshape human bodies and social life. It explores how fire, tools, and cooperation driven by women changed humans’ ...

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull,” University of Buffalo biological ...

For years, animal welfare activists have argued that Oregon Health & Science University should close the Oregon National Primate Research Center. On Thursday, the facility’s opponents achieved a ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

It’s a common mistake to think we came directly from the monkeys or chimps you see at the zoo today, […] ...