The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

It is not a recent cultural development. A new study in Evolution and Human Behavior suggests kissing may date back 21 ...

A new study looks at how the mouth-on-mouth smooch came into being, and concludes that Neanderthals also kissed.

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

Romantic kissing likely evolved for the first time in a common ancestor of humans and other large apes about 21 million years ...

A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about the origins of our species. Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient ...