Researchers analyzed over 90 primate species and, after comparison, found that the entire group had disproportionate fingers.

Longer thumbs do much more than help primates climb trees. Thumb size evolution tracks with bigger brains, which hints that hands and minds expanded together across our lineage.

We lost them along the way, but our relatives still retain them for balance. Discover the primates with the longest tails.

Why longer thumbs in primates were pivotal to human evolution - Large brains and dexterous hands are thought to be a crucial ...

Researchers have found a link between long thumbs and big brains, suggesting the two features evolved together ...

The findings remind us that our minds are not the products of brains in a vat, but the result of bodies in motion. As ...

New research reveals that primates with longer thumbs tend to have larger brains, suggesting that manual dexterity and brain ...

Summary "In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that seen among ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind's ...

Human ancestors started using and making implements long before the advent of easily recognized stone tools such as hand axes.

Orcas were spotted using kelp as a grooming tool on each other, the first known use of tools among cetaceans for something other than hunting prey.