Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like ...

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

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

Hyderabad: Recent global genomic study have provided fresh insights into how primates, including monkeys, apes, lemurs, and ...

The prevailing narrative in human history is that humanity emerged from Africa, which is true to an extent, but there may be ...

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means of communicating with each other – how did it crop up independently at about ...

However, now experts say a skull of an ape found in Turkey in 2015 could challenge that long-held notion. China claps back with its own tariffs on US imports in retaliation against Trump What ...

This insight underscores the complexity of human brain evolution, suggesting that our ... changes in frontal cortex organisation occurred in apes, followed by changes in temporal cortex in the ...