Human opinion formation has evolved to favor survival and social cohesion. Understanding this enables us to develop more ...

Now, why this happens is a question we’re not quite sure about – but there may be a clue in the fact that we’re not alone.

Chimpanzees are losing their homes, but it’s not too late. World chimpanzee day shows us why they matter and how we can help.

The more we try to understand chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, the more we find ourselves humbled by the richness and complexity of their lives — and of their intelligence. Today, on World ...

New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

This study reveals that "baby talk” has developed particularly in humans, even though other species – monkeys, bats, cats and ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

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

Past the agricultural revolution, there’s something of a sea-change in how dogs are found in the archaeological record. They ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.