By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

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 interbreeding event contributed around 20% of modern human DNA, with these genes predominantly found in regions ...

Scientists have uncovered a crucial genetic mechanism that plays a key role in the development and evolution of the human brain.

The results were telling. Plants selected by chimpanzees to make tools were significantly more flexible — on average, 175% ...