Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Omer Gokcumen is an expert in evolutionary anthropology — the study of how humans evolved and how they differ from non-human primates such as gorillas and chimpanzees. He can speak to the media about ...

But do human impacts on animal communities in ... Skov and Benjamin Peter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology sequenced nuclear, mitochondrial and Y-chromosome DNA of ...

Understanding why it evolved is thus key to understanding what made us human,” says Rhianna Drummond-Clarke, the study’s lead author and a biological anthropology Ph.D. student at the ...

Speakers at the conference, "The Evolution of Human Aggression ... said conference organizer Elizabeth Cashdan, professor of anthropology at the University of Utah. "There is plenty of evidence ...

Although it is widely understood that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, uncertainty surrounds how branches of human evolution diverged and how people migrated across the continent, said Brenna Henn, ...

we sort of make excavations in the human genome,” he said at a news conference held by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. While Neanderthal bones were first ...