Primatologists weigh in on the debate that has ignited the internet: Could 100 humans beat a single silverback gorilla in physical combat?

Compared with her own experiences with nicks and cuts, the baboons’ ability to heal seemed like a superpower.

Early humans had almost no hope of surviving severe burns, so evolution may have prioritised the selection of genes that heal ...

A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through generations, laying the foundations for new insights into the roots of ...

These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species. Until ...

They’re growing human/monkey hybrids in a lab for the purpose ... help to better understand early human development and primate evolution and develop strategies to improve human chimerism ...

United States 2 Human Evolution Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States Introduction: Papionins are a well-studied and morphologically diverse clade of ...

The results, published this week in Nature magazine by an international team of 123 researchers, help deepen people's understanding of human evolution and protect endangered ape populations.

After more than two decades of work, researchers have achieved a genetics milestone: they have successfully sequenced the complete genomes of six ape species, a feat that seemed impossible just a ...

The macaque monkey is the non-human primate best known to science ... This insight underscores the complexity of human brain evolution, suggesting that our advanced cognitive abilities arose not from ...

Back then, it was a savannah that early human populations settled in to take advantage of the favorable farming conditions. Among them was a mysterious people who lived in what is now southwestern ...