New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

Leipzig University, the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, and the Leipzig-based Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology are further strengthening their cooperation in ...

A team of researchers from the University of Exeter and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has built a model to show where human-animal interactions are in the best interests of ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469666006_peacock https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469666006_peacock.3 The focus of this book is the study of symbols ...

The American Anthropological Association (AAA), the primary professional society of anthropologists in the United States since its founding in 1902, is the world's largest professional organization of ...

Young chimpanzees are remarkably innovative, inventing tools and improving on ones that adults use—and this technical ...