Almost all primates today, including people, give birth to usually just one baby. But our most recent common ancestor, which occupied North America about 60 million years ago, likely saw twins as ...

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.

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...

The primate facility consists mostly of drab ... him are peering into the minds of our closest relatives, whose common ancestor with humans lived some six million years ago, to understand what ...

Though the reason behind this action is unclear, researchers suggest socially consuming alcohol may have offered evolutionary benefits to a common ancestor of both humans and chimps ...

All primate brains, including those of humans ... which inherited these genes from a common ancestor, represented by transitional fish like Tiktaalik. This means some of the genes that fashion ...