Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries. Few apes ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to communicate, ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

The area is also home to at least five mud-brick pyramids that contain human remains. The largest pyramid complex is that of Siamun, the sixth pharaoh of Egypt in the 21st Dynasty. Skeletons found in ...

Advert However, they're now unsure whether this is truly the case. The study looked at an area in Nubia (Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Researchers re-analyzed skeletons found in ...

And from analysing their remains, there was a real mix of the type of people in there. The skeletons in the pyramids were a mix of people who hadn't done much labour-intensive work in their lives.

Kanzi was not the first great ape to learn how to communicate with humans ... and Panbanisha’s handiwork with their own and that of human ancestors who lived 2.6 million years ago, they found ...

What's more, according to their analysis of modern human DNA, one of these isolated populations left a stronger legacy in our genes than the other. "The question of where we come from is one that has ...

This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our ... It’s more palatable to imagine sacred plants sparking a leap in human consciousness than to “digest the ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness of space can take years from which to fully recover. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ...

Mungo Man is the oldest skeleton ever found in Australia at approximately 42 thousand years old — older than the pyramids in Egypt — and some of the earliest human remains discovered anywhere ...