We humans like to think we’re special in basically all ways, but if the history of life is any indication, our species has a ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Quantum 2.0: The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology by Paul Davies (Feb. 6, $26, ISBN 978-0-226-84932-4) ...

A new study shows that Polynesian rats, not humans, were responsible for the deforestation at Rapa Nui, contrary to popular ...

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...

Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and ...

Nearly 250 years ago, Europeans established their first permanent settlement in Australia and came into contact with the continent’s Aboriginal people. Now, a new study published in Science Advances ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...

Children universally believe animals experience emotions and feelings but are reluctant to say they have human-like thoughts, ...

Two macaques learned to keep time with various songs, which might point to how humans got their sense of rhythm. But some ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...