When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the 'Journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society' suggested that the world’s first ...

New research in the Journal of Human Evolution suggests that the ancient ‘Lazarus’ primate was North America's last until ...

The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity, ...

Money is a powerful force in human life and affairs. Its very power gives pause to those who look to evolution for full explanations of human behavior, because money has not existed long enough to ...

Naming others is considered a marker of highly advanced cognition in social animals, previously observed only in humans, bottlenose dolphins and African elephants. Marmoset monkeys have now joined ...

Scientists have found evidence suggesting that kissing dates back up to 21 million years and that our ape ancestors and ...

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