Who was the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and us modern humans? The last common ancestor of both the Homo sapiens and ...

"Scrumping by the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans about 10 million years ago could explain why ...

HUMANS’ love of booze comes from ape ancestors who ate fermented rotten fruit in the jungle, a study suggests. Scrumping by ...

Ape behavior just got a name upgrade — “scrumping” — and it might help explain why humans can handle alcohol so well.

Researchers say they have finally uncovered the mysterious origins of one of our favorite carbs: the humble potato.

New research suggests apes foraging for fermented fruit - called “scrumping” - may explain humans’ unique ability to digest alcohol.

Human ancestors ate small children 850,000 years ago, a gruesome discovery has shown. Archaeologists working at the Gran Dolina cave site in Burgos, northern Spain, found a human neck bone belonging ...

If scientists are to better understand whether the genes that let us welcome the weekend with a cold beer or enjoy a glass of ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A new study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

If you follow any path of ancestry back far enough, you’ll reach the same single point. Whether you begin with gorillas or ginkgo trees or bacteria that live deep in the bowels of the Earth — or ...

The last common ancestor of plants and animals was a little single-celled organism that lived around 1.5 billion of years ago. One descendant of our last common ancestor went on to engulf a ...