THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...

This isn’t a story about whether humans evolved from monkeys. But we share many of those primates’ outward features and even organizational systems in the brain, so they’re a perpetual scientific ...