Researchers discover surprising similarity in how humans and great apes giggle — reflecting ties to common ancestors: study

NEW YORK (AP) — Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new ...
ZME Science

A 15-Million-Year-Old Clue in Ape Laughter May Reveal How Humans First Evolved the Ability to Speak

The study compared laughter from four orangutans, two gorillas, three bonobos, four chimpanzees, and four human children, ...
AOL

Scientists May Have Discovered the Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Apes

Before Neanderthals and Denisovans, before Homo erectus, before Lucy and other australopiths, who was the ancestor that gave rise to human evolution? Fossils of hominoids that lived during the ...
Gizmodo

773,000-Year-Old Fossils Add a New Twist to Humanity’s Deep Origins

Researchers theorize that the last common ancestor of modern humans and two of our extinct human cousins—Neanderthals and Denisovans—existed about 765,000 to 550,000 years ago. Where these ...
Phys.org

No known hominin is ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans, research says

This image shows diversity in premolar and molar morphology in Neanderthals, modern humans and potential ancestral species. Credit: Aida Gómez-Robles The search for a common ancestor linking ...
Opinion

To claim someone has 'Viking ancestors' is no better than astrology

Exaggerated claims from genetic ancestry testing companies undermine serious research into human genetic history ...