A new study challenges the age of a site in Chile, called Monte Verde, that's crucial to our understanding of how people got ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Michael Bond explains how animals have influenced our minds and cultures and why human exceptionalism is downright misleading ...

Humans really are everywhere. More than any other vertebrate species, we have managed to quickly spread across the planet and ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

The animal kingdom is full of examples of species that can fully regenerate their vision, but unfortunately, humans are not among them. A new study highlights that mammals aren’t without some nifty ...

All vertebrate species have a pelvis, but only humans use it for upright, two-legged walking. The evolution of the human pelvis, and our two-legged gait, dates back 5 million years, but the precise ...

Two decades ago, psychologist Christopher Peterson claimed that the emerging field of positive psychology could be summarized in three words: Other people matter. These words could just as well ...

Michael Gurven's new book takes a look at the evolution of human longevity and tries to dispel common misconceptions about aging. Reading time 6 minutes Aging is inevitable, but it hasn’t always ...

Humans develop sharp vision during early fetal development thanks to an interplay between a vitamin A derivative and thyroid hormones in the retina, Johns Hopkins University scientists have found. The ...