Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and ...

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull,” University of Buffalo biological ...

Trust in real estate is built by giving value first. This is a lesson rooted in human behavior that will continue to drive referrals.

The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes is an enthralling biography of Alfred Tennyson in his youth.

Living organisms share an ancestor called the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. LUCA is estimated to have lived ...

Like all new parents, Arthur Zey and Chase Popp think their son Dax is the most perfect baby in the world. But they don't attribute their son's temperament to their paternal instincts alone.