The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

The curious minds at What If reveal the truth about human and chimpanzee evolution, comparing genomes, behavior, and ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

From school to work to everyday life, you’ve likely been part of groups that work together smoothly and others that quickly ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

Chimpanzees may look like smaller, hairier versions of humans, but when a full-grown chimp decides to throw its weight around ...

Another suggestion is that tails disappeared from the earliest apes due to a genetic mistake. When a single short stretch of DNA found in humans and other apes, but not in other primates, was added to ...

It has long been known that apes can plan ahead and consider the beliefs of other individuals, but no reproducible evidence ...

The cryptocurrency landscape of 2026 is no longer defined by simple speculation; it is defined by convergence. As the market ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ...