The terms hominid and hominin are often used interchangeably, but they do not mean the same thing. Hominids include all great ...

Humans carry a surprising relic from deep evolutionary history, one that traces back to a tiny, one-eyed ancestor that lived ...

An international team of scientists from Queen Mary University of London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Biology Centre ...

An international research team from Germany, the UK, and Greece has found evidence that wooden tools were used in Greece ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

Identity recognition is probably the least important function our fingerprints might serve for us. Here’s how and why they ...

FRIEDRICH ENGELS’S essay on the origins of our species is today recognised as a foundational text, not just of Marxism, but of today’s physical and social anthropology.Like most of Engels’s ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of "perfect design": elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, ...

Having a tail that extends beyond the anal opening is a requirement of membership in the phylum Chordata, where humans and ...

As climate change outpaces the ability of ecosystems to adapt, scientists are turning to conservation genomics to guide ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...