The secrets of human brain evolution are beginning to be unveiled thanks to a recent study. Researchers have explored key ...

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory ...

Selective breeding over the past century has shortened and flattened the snouts of German domestic pigs. Though not an ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

For thousands of years, spoken language has set humans apart from all other species. The ability to convey complex ideas, ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

The findings demonstrate how strongly humans can influence the evolution of animals. "Charles Darwin assumed that long periods of time -- millions of years -- are required for major changes to ...