While we share bones, joints, and internal plumbing with the rest of the animal kingdom, one tiny facial feature is uniquely ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have discovered the adaptive significance of the remarkable waste-management behavior in ...

Complex life may have started its rise in Earth’s oxygen-free oceans nearly a billion years earlier than anyone imagined.

The data showed that a dog with a similar weight to a wolf had a brain volume about three-quarters the size of the wolf’s.

A sculptor's rendering of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis is displayed as part of an exhibition that includes the 3.2 ...

Strong competition for mates triggers dramatic changes in beetles, offering rare insight into the early stages of species ...

The first major finding is that while most cognitive skills in puppies develop surprisingly early, they develop independently ...

The proposal that evolution could be used as a metaphor for problem solving came with the invention of the computer 1. In the 1970s and 1980s the principal idea was developed into different ...

Lesch’s theory is that the main driver of the domestication is human trash. “Animals love our trash. It’s an easy source of ...