The theory that East Africa is the most likely birthplace for human beings has persisted over many years. A new find, however ...

The Amazon molly is an all-female fish that ditched sexual reproduction entirely, thriving for over 100,000 years through ...

A professor of anthropology explores how early hominids ate prehistoric elephants to survive.

The cover of National Geographic’s March issue featured a tractor tire dangling from a thread. Not metaphorically, but literally, because the thread is spider silk — five times stronger than steel but ...

While it’s certainly a possibility, it’s very, very unlikely we’ll witness a new species of human evolve in the near future.

Blushing is one behavior you may have wanted to eliminate completely, but there is a strong, adaptive reason why evolution ...

Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do ...

As climate change outpaces the ability of ecosystems to adapt, scientists are turning to conservation genomics to guide restoration ...

Courts no longer ask only who is at fault, but rather whether the marriage itself still exists in any meaningful sense.

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...