This video traces the long evolutionary path from the first primates about 85 million years ago to modern Homo sapiens.

For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human evolution and birth: humans endure unusually difficult childbirth ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

Sleep is often treated as a casualty of modern life. Artificial lighting, shift work, endless notifications and late-night ...

With their bright red, hairless chests and grass-grazing lifestyle, gelada monkeys are quite unusual. They are the only primate, other than humans, to primarily live on land instead of in trees, and a ...

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...

A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...

A study investigated whether the genes for schizophrenia and autism appeared more frequently as mammals evolved bigger brains ...