Could the intelligence of Australopithecines be more developed than we previously thought? Recent discoveries about these ancestors raise questions about our evolution. At the heart of human history, ...

Big bang theory of human evolution? New U-M study suggests that's the way it was. EDITORS: A figure accompanying this story will be available at http://www.umich.edu ...

The opposable thumb’s evolutionary arrival is commonly associated with the dawn of our ancestors' first use of stone tools. Most primates – including humans, apes, and some monkeys – boast this ...

It is one of the best-known stories in science: the evolution of mankind from ape-like creatures to modern humans via knuckle-grazing cave-dwellers. Now it has been blown apart by the first ...