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

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

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 ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

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 ...