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 from the University of Sydney and the University of Glasgow.

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

The ability to quickly and affordably survey a patient's entire genome is expected to accelerate research, diagnostics, and ...

The return of Dr. Spencer Reid was one of the most anticipated moments in the entire run of ‘Criminal Minds: Evolution.’ For three seasons, the BAU felt noticeably incomplete without its resident ...

‘Criminal Minds: Evolution‘ just wrapped its most emotionally loaded season yet, and the finale left fans with plenty to unpack. Titled “Bad Blood,” the episode closes out the Sicarius storyline while ...

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 ...