In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to ...

Jane Goodall died Wednesday. As she was universally regarded as the greatest living expert on chimpanzees, her passing is a momentous event. It’s one that comes at a time of upheaval in the field ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of mental control that are key to tool manufacturing and use by humans.

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

On more than one occasion, I have made the passing comment that "the Darwinist has no answer to ..." this or that phenomenon. For instance, we have said that the Darwinist has no answer for the ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...