Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

Human flexibility in shoulders and elbows originated from ancient apes' need for safe tree descent. A new study reveals chimpanzees, unlike monkeys, ...

Evolution has given the human body some odd parting gifts, like the appendix. People just don't eat as much tree bark as they used to.

A study comparing lead exposure in Neanderthals, human ancestors and 20th-century humans poses a series of questions for ...

According to a 26-year study from the University of Gothenburg, published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, limitations ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Walking in nature has been shown to boost physical and mental health, lowering stress and restoring attention. But ...

Dan Trachtenberg continues to find fresh and exciting ways to make "Predator" great again, this time by challenging the core ...

The skeleton was discovered in 1994 in the Ethiopian Desert and belonged to the species Ardipithecus ramidus. Further investigation revealed that Ardi could walk upright like humans, but had ape-like ...

I often infuse my paintings with my sense of humor, or as others would say, my sense of sarcasm, wit, or irony.” ...

Most people would not think twice about seeing a bird on UCLA’s campus. However, for researchers in the Yeh Lab, many of the ...

Tools recovered from three sedimentary layers in Kenya show continuous tool use spanning from 2.75 to 2.44 million years ago in the face of environmental changes.