The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

A strange theory suggests a human-like species, Homo floresiensis, may still inhabit Flores Island caves. These small-bodied ...

Researchers have put forth a theory that humans are no longer subject to natural selection for evolution, but instead that ...

Scientists can't quite agree what constitutes consciousness, nor are they sure why it ever came to be, though they have ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

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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 ...

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From war and politics to interpersonal strife, the continuous inability of humans to “just get along” raises a perplexing question: Why are we so often hostile, fearful of difference, and irrational ...