A curious thing happens to white-faced capuchin monkeys when they anoint their bodies with mud and plant matter, a natural insect repellent: With their heads and faces slathered in goop, these highly ...

The path of human evolution may need to be rewritten after archaeologists discovered that monkeys also produce ‘tool-like flakes’ that were thought to be uniquely man-made. In a discovery that calls ...

Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In a recent episode of the Australian series of "I'm a Celebrity Get ...

Among the earliest forms of tools used by the ancestors of modern humans, a stone split to form a razor-sharp cutting edge has been used by palaeontologists investigating our evolution for decades.

Racial, ethnic and religious prejudice may lie in our evolutionary past, according to new research using monkeys. Several experiments have found the animals were more wary of outsiders and associated ...

TODAY is Monkey Day, an annual celebration held on December 14 since 2000 when artists Carey Sorrow and Eric Millikin at Michigan State University decided that a Monkey Day was what the world needed.

Money is a powerful force in human life and affairs. Its very power gives pause to those who look to evolution for full explanations of human behavior, because money has not existed long enough to ...

The task is simple: walk or die.

Verbal communication in humans is 60% affected by the way your face looks. So what does that tell us about the new hipster trend to grow full on beards? Distinctive facial hair such as moustaches, ...