Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

Neanderthals: The First Europeans (Sorry, Sapiens!) Homo sapiens may be the reigning champion of modern humanity, but when it ...

Words vanish the instant they’re spoken, and no skeleton can tell us when our ancestors first started talking. So how can ...

It helped us reach our “prime.” The Progression of Man apparently wasn’t as gradual as once thought. UK researchers found ...

The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building to vestigial anatomy.

Evolutionary psychology is known for dark parts of our nature, like homicide. But it also explains prosocial behaviors, like ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a prehistoric cave dating back up to 400,000 years, revealing evidence of complex social life among pre-Neanderthal hominins during a little-understood period ...

Dr. Vishwanath Joshi of Great Place To Work India argues that AI is not the real threat to jobs; fear of AI is. He says ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans. One of the ...

A new study constructs the first 3D single-cell brain atlas of the lamprey, uncovering the 450-million-year-old molecular ...