Yet despite this growing interest in consciousness, the million-dollar question remains: does the stoned ape theory have any ...

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means ...

In other words, evolution and the second law of thermodynamics can live together in harmony. No, human beings did not evolve ...

The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared ... We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time ...

The site, an eroded limestone cave called Malapa, is in a region already so famous for its ancient human fossils that ... of Missouri who studies the evolution of apes and early hominins (a ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Intelligent Design on Trial" reveals how genetic evidence helped to confirm an important component of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection: the common ancestry of humans and apes.

Our team’s research modelled the anatomy of these early humans, Australopithecus afarensis, to find out how well they could ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

While our current research has shed light on the evolution of the human heart, our work analyzing the hearts of endangered ...