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

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 ...

Wētā VFX supervisor Luke Millar discusses turning Robbie Williams into a performing monkey for Michael Gracey's biopic.

A study comparing human, chimpanzee, and macaque brains reveals significant differences in gene expression, particularly in ...

Are humans the result of a pig and a chimpanzee mating? Maybe, says Eugene M. McCarthy, who holds a Ph.D. in genetics from ...

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

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

Like humans, chimpanzees can rise to the occasion in front of a large audience or fail miserably, scientists said.

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 ...

Study finds some chimps twice as skilled at nut-cracking, highlighting 25 years of research on intelligence and tool use.

Unlike the chimpanzees and gorillas passively consuming ... Hendrik Schmidt / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Oftentimes in human evolution, scientists only focus on the ‘typical’ or most ...