“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

“While the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusual large size evolved as a sexual ornament to attract females rather than purely as a badge of status to ...

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to chimpanzees. By comparing full and half siblings across species and human cultures, ...

The real revelation, however, came from the men. Men considered a larger penis as an indicator of a rival with both greater ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

The newly described specimen is a partial left mandible plus a molar crown, dated to about 2.6 million years ago using multiple methods, making it one of the oldest Paranthropus fossils known. The ...

Team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen finds 11.6 million year old evidence of the ...

Gay apes are a thing!

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

A recently analyzed Homo habilis skeleton, dating back over 2 million years, is reshaping our understanding of early human ...

Michel Tama Sadiakhou's future dramatically changed course some 15 years ago thanks to a clan of spear-wielding apes: instead ...