In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Words vanish the instant they’re spoken, and no skeleton can tell us when our ancestors first started talking. So how can ...

Homo heidelbergensis lived hundreds of thousands of years ago during a critical phase of human evolution. Fossil evidence ...

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of ...

Laughter is one of the most familiar human sounds, but it may be much older and more commonly shared even among our closest ...

Great apes and humans all laugh with a steady, even rhythm, and a new study finds it has barely changed in 15 million years.

Before Neanderthals and Denisovans, before Homo erectus, before Lucy and other australopiths, who was the ancestor that gave rise to human evolution? Fossils of hominoids that lived during the Early ...

The ancestors of modern humans and great apes began laughing at least 15 million years ago. This was reported by Popular ...

This image shows diversity in premolar and molar morphology in Neanderthals, modern humans and potential ancestral species. Credit: Aida Gómez-Robles The search for a common ancestor linking modern ...