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Study Finds Bonobos and Chimpanzees Are Equally Aggressive With Different Targets

Researchers say zoo conditions limit direct comparisons to wild populations.

Study Finds Prehistoric Pairings Favored Neanderthal Men and Human Women

New Study Finds Human Chin Is an Evolutionary Byproduct

Study Links Humans’ Use of Fire to Evolution in Burn-Response Genes

Study Finds Larger Penis Size Raises Attractiveness and Rival Threat Perceptions

Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Penis Size Shapes Female Attraction and Male Rivalry Perceptions

Altamura Neanderthal’s Nose Reconstruction Overturns Claimed Cold-Adaptation Traits

New Model Recasts Neanderthal 'Extinction' as Genetic Absorption Into Modern Humans

Study Recasts Ardi’s 4.4-Million-Year-Old Ankle, Blending Ape-Like Climbing With Early Bipedal Traits

Study Links Ancient Lead Exposure to Brain Differences Between Humans and Neanderthals

First Paranthropus Boisei Hand Reveals Human-Like Dexterity With Gorilla-Like Power

Rebuilt Million-Year-Old Skull Recasts Early Human Family Tree

Study Finds Wild Chimps Consume About One Human Drink’s Worth of Ethanol Daily

Study Pinpoints Two Embryonic Shifts That Shaped the Human Pelvis for Bipedalism

Modern Humans Experienced Two Rounds of Selection on a Brain Enzyme

Behavioral Drive Preceded Dental Evolution in Early Hominins

Placental Steroid Hypothesis Links Hormones to Human Brain Evolution

Harbin 'Dragon Man' Skull Identified as First Complete Denisovan Cranium