The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

Some primates have evolved behaviors and physical traits so unusual that they appear almost unnatural, yet each serves a ...

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A new species of ancient primate challenges what we think we know about where human ancestors diverged from monkeys.

Biologists say the appendix isn’t useless after all. Evolution kept reinventing it, and it may help support gut immunity and ...

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 ...

In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley ...

Primatologist Birutė Galdikas died on March 24, 2026, and an era of science that began in the forests of Tanzania, Rwanda and Borneo studying humanity’s closest living relatives more than half a ...

Identity recognition is probably the least important function our fingerprints might serve for us. Here’s how and why they ...

Two new studies from Project CETI provide the most detailed account of a sperm whale birth ever recorded, revealing ...

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...