A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Austrian researchers reveal why snow monkeys don't suffer maternal deaths during childbirth, offering insights into safer ...

Studies have suggested that genes under strong sexual selection tend to evolve rapidly, particularly those associated with ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the moon and ...

Engineers have derived potent new antibiotics from a frog's secretions. The new molecules demonstrated capabilities on par with existing last-resort antibiotics, without harming human cells or ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...