The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

Well, not now – but a paper published in Genome Biology in 2006 concluded that after humans and chimpanzees cleaved from each other around 6 million years ago, they continued to interbreed for at ...

Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

Termites did not evolve complex societies by adding new genetic features. Instead, scientists found that they became more ...

© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed ...

When the Chicxulub impactor hit, the animals that had the best chance of surviving turned out to be those with wings. See how new finds are reshaping the story of how birds evolved.

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

A new study comparing 59 species of primates linked same-sex sexual behavior to scarce resources and more predators in socially complex species. The findings show diverse sexual behaviors are common — ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Our evolved craving for cause and effect once ensured survival but now fuels misunderstanding. Learning to favor correlation ...

The findings, based on the analysis of human fossils in a Moroccan cave dating back nearly 800,000 years possibly shift the focus from Europe back to the African continent. The fossils, mainly ...