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

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

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

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savannah habitats. Some of the ...

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

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

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

Doug was the leader of his chimpanzee group. He had quickly gained a reputation from human observers as a fair and tolerant ...

Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee ...

Understanding how chimpanzees have adapted to survive in the wild can shed light on key questions in human biology and evolution. It can also inform their conservation. However, we know very ...