A remarkable fossil discovery in South Africa has shed light on human evolution. Young Matthew Berger found a bone that led ...

For most of history, banking felt formal, distant, and highly structured. People walked into large buildings with marble ...

Miners in Zambia unearthed the Broken Hill skull in 1921, a fossil initially baffling scientists with its mix of modern and ...

Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found ...

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand ...

The recognition of "Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder" reshapes debates about control over impulsive sexual behavior, but ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

This wide-ranging overview traces human evolution from the earliest primates around 85 million years ago through the emergence of apes, australopithecines, and the many human species that followed. It ...

Faster than expected: Researchers found natural selection has been more active in recent human history, especially after farming began. Hundreds of gene shifts: The study identified 479 gene variants ...