Recent discoveries of fossils have provided evidence suggesting intelligent tool use among pre-human species. This ...

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

The extraordinary evolution of humans is often exemplified by two defining traits: large brains and highly dexterous hands.

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Capuchin monkeys at the Serra da Capivara National Park in Brazil have been using stone tools for 3,000 years, leaving behind a valuable archaeological record. When archaeologists took a closer look ...

It's a long way from small, sharp shards of rock used in disassembling an African antelope killed by the same hands that made the proto-knives to the trigger of a computerized, laser-sighted, ...

A recently announced discovery of sophisticated stone tools at the Pinnacle Point site in South Africa pushes further back in time the evidence for the appearance of modern human intellectual ...

The biology teacher's pedagogical toolbox is evolving. Bright colors, replicating computer code and a digital petri dish bring evolution science to life for students. Students often learn best when ...