The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

By Mike Lee For most of our evolutionary history, human activity has been linked to daylight. Technology has liberated us ...

First identified by archaeologists in 1978, the site was initially found to be home to at least 70 hominin footprints ...

"The sleepy Mexican" has been used over the years to portray a negative stereotype of Mexicans as lazy. But it wasn’t always ...

A study suggests that the human act of kissing is a remnant of grooming, in which great apes use lip suction to clean the fur ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

Long before humans ate dinner rolls or french fries ... journal Science suggests the amylase gene has a much longer evolutionary history than scientists previously thought. The study found ...

New research offers insight into the evolutionary history of amylase genes, which are key to our ability to eat and digest starchy food. A study found that human ancestors started carrying ...

A vast colony of aspen clones could hold clues about how ancient organisms protect their genomes from harmful mutations.

Our ancient evolutionary cousins on Flores represent a unique lineage who lived during a time multiple human species were ... of rat bones reveal about the history of ‘hobbits’ on Flores.) ...