People might often claim (or disprove) the idea that humans evolved from apes. The reality, though, is that evolution isn't ...

Mongrel models and seductive scenarios of human evolution -- Terminology, morphology, genes, and lots of fossils : Apes in space ; Apes in time ; Taproot and branches of our family tree -- Positional ...

Human evolution is a long and winding tale that goes back millions of years, but one aspect of our anatomy shaped up quickly compared to other mammals: our large brains and flat faces. As these ...

Humans take nearly 18 to 25 years to reach full maturity, far longer than most mammals. This slow human growth is driven by ...

What can chimpanzees teach us about ourselves? A lot, says Craig Stanford, who's spent three decades studying the lives of our closest cousins. Humans share upwards of 98% of their DNA with the great ...

Anthropologist and author David Samson examines how the story of human sleep unfolded in his new book, “The Sleepless Ape.” ...

"This book is about the irreducibility of human evolution to purely biological properties and processes, for human evolution has incorporated the emergence of social relations and cultural histories ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.