New Teeth Analysis Reveals Humans and Neanderthals Split 800,000 Years Ago, Yet We Have a Mysterious Common Ancestor New ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

Learn more about complex compositionality, an ability to combine words and calls that humans and bonobos apparently share.

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

Researchers developed an algorithm that maps human genetic diversity and ancestry to better understand population history.

Scientists have shown that bonobos combine their calls into complex sound sequences that resemble combinations of human words ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was ...