What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

"Groups have histories, and those histories show up in behavior,” said Stephan Kaufhold, who led the study as a doctoral ...

Where did it start? How did it grow complex? Why did it get big? Three moments in Earth’s early history when evolution ...

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...

A 165-million-year-old fossil has revealed an extraordinary Jurassic predator that may help explain how mammals developed one ...

A new Frontiers review argues that no human has ever conceived in space and that making babies beyond Earth may require ...

New fossils from South Africa are reshaping the story of early human evolution. Researchers have described 18 hominin fossils from Drimolen Cave, including an adult Homo erectus skull fragment dated ...

Scientists examine DNA evidence connected to early human ancestors. The video explains how researchers study the finding ...

In fact, the overwhelming majority of animals have tails. Only a select few, like us humans, don’t have an external tail. But ...

A 13,900-year-old bone projectile embedded in a mastodon's rib in Washington State has provided remarkable evidence of human ...

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which occurred by at least 2.6 million years ago. The diet of the earliest hominins ...