New evidence suggests that early humans reached the Jordan Valley at least 1.9 million years ago, hundreds of thousands of ...

After the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit, giant birds became apex predators for tens of millions of years – and humans were ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much more complicated family history than the popular version suggests.

Scientists now know that they shared many of the sophisticated abilities of Homo sapiens. So why are we the only humans left ...

Millions of years ago, a virus infected the ancestors of chimpanzees and left behind a genetic souvenir. Humans never ...

Greek paleoanthropologist Katerina Harvati, a professor at the University of Tubingen, will receive the Albert Einstein World ...

In fact, the overwhelming majority of animals have tails. Only a select few, like us humans, don’t have an external tail. But why don’t humans have tails? To answer that question we have to go way ...

Evolutionary genetics challenges a recent two-person origin for the entire human population. It does not necessarily ...

Introduction: Society has evolved. But what about humans?Modern society is about to transition to a new stage called Society ...

We live in an era where we can obtain more information than ever before, in an instant.In an age where opening a smartphone ...

We tend to think of our bones as solid, unchanging support structures inside our bodies, but a recent study from the ...