It was also mind-boggling when, in 1987, British researchers demonstrated that a human gene could be inserted ... back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion years ago.

New data suggests that the human inclination toward feasting in groups is part of our deep evolutionary history.

Matsuzawa sang out, voicing a chimp call known as a pant-hoot ... are peering into the minds of our closest relatives, whose common ancestor with humans lived some six million years ago, to ...

The first members of the human lineage lack many features that distinguish us from other primates. Although it has been a difficult quest, we are closer than ever to knowing the mother of us all.

Neanderthals and Denisovans share a common ancestor. Researchers looking at human evolution have suggested that the human ...