Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

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, ...

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature ...

The prominent noses of male proboscis monkeys, long thought to be merely visual signals, play a crucial role in vocal communication, enhancing individual identity. A new study published in the Journal ...

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 ...