Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

In a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, scientists show that the SAMD9 and SAMD9L genes, key players in ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated, through multi-agent simulations in a two-dimensional space, that the ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...

I have noted that many of my fellow Christians have difficulty with the theory of evolution. This has been true since Charles Darwin published his "On the Origin of Species" in 1859. Most people have ...