Counter to today's depictions of cave-dwellers feasting on raw meat, early relatives of present-day humans ate little or no meat, according to new research. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become a defining force of our epoch, its algorithms already interwoven with nearly ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the ...

Humans are the only mammals with long hair on their heads. Scientists look into what drives this unique feature.

A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of ...

Behavioural finance has profoundly reshaped the landscape of long-term financial planning. Rooted in the basic insight that ...

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...