A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease. However, the evolution of ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

An excavated cave near Haifa, Israel, may offer archaeologists an unusually direct record from a poorly documented phase of human evolution. Researchers say the site captures one preserved episode of ...