The first example of Paranthropus was discovered in South Africa by Dr Robert Broom in 1938. Its name means “beside man” and ...

Here’s how it works. Scientists once thought there was a clear evolutionary line between our ancestors and us. But emerging evidence suggests our evolutionary history is more like a braided stream ...

“The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is astonishing,” stated Aylwyn Scally of Cambridge University. That sums up ...

In a world where evolutionary biology often gets boiled down to simplistic hierarchies of "primitive" and "advanced" species, a new book by University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) biologist ...

"A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing," was published by Evolution and Human Behavior on Nov. 19 ...