More than 60,000 years ago, humans in southern Africa were engraving ostrich eggshells with intricate geometric patterns that ...

New research reveals that vision, not frontal lobe expansion, drove the evolution of large brains in primates, including ...

The curious minds at What If explore the dramatic biological and physical shifts our species would undergo while adapting to ...

Researchers used a new method to investigate past interbreeding with Homo sapiens that doesn't require ancient DNA. The ...

Can we ever overcome the massive mental health crisis we are facing if we don't see ourselves as part of the evolution of ...

Life on Earth is thought to have emerged from the primordial ooze some four billion years ago. Now a provocative new study ...

Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury. And a new study in Science shows meat has never been the main fuel source ...

A sweet tooth for sugars from fruits and honey may have helped fuel brain growth in our primate cousins and early human ...

Fruit, honey and other naturally sweet foods may have helped fuel the evolution of the human brain, according to new research ...

A new study led by a Duke University scientist overturns a long-held idea about how primates, including humans, came to have ...

De Greef’s true-crime thriller, which grew from reporting originally published in The New Yorker, explores the origins of the toad-smoking movement, and the trail of death and abuse that one ...

A spectacular fossil site in Canada contains 567-million-year-old creatures that may represent some of the earliest animals to move, reproduce sexually, and develop recognizable body plans. The ...