Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

Modern humans belong to a small minority of monogamous mammals and, in terms of partner fidelity, rank between the Eurasian beaver and the white-handed gibbon. That's the conclusion of evolutionary ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

A study by University of Liverpool researchers reveals that the species hardest to detect—those rarely seen, recorded, or ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ...