Evolution cannot explain biological complexity without bumping up against some fundamental laws of nature. If you recall, we ...

The famed research institute in Kenya, where the Leakey family and other scientists have made important discoveries about human evolution, celebrated two decades of working with the downstate flagship ...

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The Trump adviser’s assertions about the “real world” reflect a deep misunderstanding of Thomas Hobbes’s dog-eat-dog ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Decades of research with humans and other species indicate that males are more aggressive than females. But within the family ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

Yet, jellyfish tend to sleep through the night like humans, and even nap around midday. Meanwhile, their close relative, the ...