Humans
Humans described as 'Super Predators' in a study published on Science Mag.
Dogs Win Car Race Against Humans
As a society where the institution of marriage underpins the general concept of monogamy, we may be surprised to find out that it's not love that drives us to choose to pair up, it's the threat of infanticide.
A group of 75 scientists from around the world have created a comprehensive genetic history of great apes over the last 15 million years, giving researchers a clearer look at genetic variation among some of our closest relatives.
Humans and apes such as chimpanzees might share 99 percent of the same DNA, but one eccentric difference that might have aided in us becoming the more dominant species that we can throw faster.
If a certain duo is right, then humans of the future will look rather...bulbous. According to a pair of visionaries, mankind will gain mastery over our genetics and begin furthering some strange looking but vital characteristics over the next 100,000 years.
Communicative gestures used by human infants, baby chimpanzees, and baby bonobos are all incredibly similar, asserts a new study, which also claims humans inherited gestures from a 6-million-year-old shared ancestor.
As human beings we have one of the most varied and exotic diets in all of the animal kingdom, and scientists may have finally narrowed in on when our meals began resembling the dishes they do today. According to four new studies, it was around 3.5 million years ago when our ancestors added grass to their diet, leading to the multitude of grains, meat, and dairy we see on our grocery store shelves today.
Why and where humans first began walking upright on two feet has never been definitively answered, and a new study out of the University of York only looks to add more fuel to the debate. According to York archaeologists, the move to walk upright on two feet came about because of the rugged landscape of East and South Africa.
