Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

The first, called FOXP2, plays a role in human speech and language, but it must do something else in other species, because the decidedly nonverbal mouse has a version of it.

Articles about the evolution of man. A few crucial digs have given us a glimpse of the everyday life of Homo heidelbergensis.This early human was developing a complex mind - once this boundary had ...

The first anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) appear in Africa some time before 100kYA -- they evolved from Homo heidelbergensis. Skip to main content Your source for the latest research news ...

And now that the first stage of human evolution has concluded, he believes we’ve entered a suspended state and a second stage of evolution is coming. It’s all ours to shape.

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic ...

The year 2023 proved to be another exciting 12 months for research in human evolution. ... First up is a study from October by a team headed by Gabriele Russo.

Humans spend about 35 minutes every day chewing. That adds up to more than a full week out of every year. But that’s nothing compared to the time spent masticating by our cousins: Chimps chew ...

A new investigation led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and ...

Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist Charles Darwin who laid out an explanation for how humans came to be. His theory of evolution, first described in 1859 ...