The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simian Cinema Certain images continue to stand the test of time within the wilds of cinematic pop culture. From Dorothy wandering ...

Human evolution is a long and winding tale that goes back millions of years, but one aspect of our anatomy shaped up quickly compared to other mammals: our large brains and flat faces. As these ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo, and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during the ...

A Window Into the Evolution of Speech Because spoken language leaves no direct fossil evidence, scientists have few ways to trace its earliest origins. Laughter, however, is evolutionarily much older ...

Two great apes — one small, one large — coexisted in what’s now Germany 11.6 million years ago, a new study says Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet, lived ...

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a rhythmic pattern. In other words, the same amount of time passed between each ...

Bonobo male Kikongo making 'happy' grin faces at the Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 2010 ...