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 ...

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

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

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

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

Difference between humans, chimpanzees and Neanderthals: In humans, facial growth slows during childhood and stops during ...

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

The results of the study show that the two genes act in a finely tuned interplay: one ensures that the progenitor cells of ...

New research from Oxford University has revealed chimpanzee "engineering" capabilities that aid them in retrieving insects as food sources.

On Hacking Humans, this week Dave Bittner is back with Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of N2K's daily space podcast, T-Minus), and they are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, ...

In an exciting first that highlights a mysterious aspect of human technological evolution, chimpanzees impressively engineer tools to fish for termites in Tanzania. For chimpanzees, termites might be ...