An international team of paleobiologists, anthropologists and behavioral scientists has found that the process used by modern ...

The stone selection process is a valuable way to differentiate between primate and hominin stone tools in the archaeological ...

To many people’s surprise, hunting and eating meat is a regular part of wild chimpanzee life. Chimps' hunting varies between ...

When chimpanzees reach adolescence, life becomes very different from what they've experienced so far — they must find their place in the complex social world of adults. Rachna Reddy, a biological ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and ...

Adolescent chimpanzees are, in some respects, rather similar to their human counterparts. They live with mum until well into ...

While humans and chimpanzees share many genes, alterations in gene activity may account for distinctive features of the human ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and capabilities far exceed those of any other species on Earth. Yet humans share ...

As world travelers look for new places to visit, one criterion increasingly stands out: meaningful connections with local ...