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Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature ...

Biologists say the appendix isn’t useless after all. Evolution kept reinventing it, and it may help support gut immunity and ...

Modern apes may have swung into existence in North Africa or the Middle East. New fossil findings — published March 26 in Science — unveil Masripithecus, a roughly 17-million-year-old early ape that ...

Identity recognition is probably the least important function our fingerprints might serve for us. Here’s how and why they ...

Focus Markets, a global financial services provider, today announced a comprehensive strategic transformation designed to ...

Researchers who observed a murderous conflict unfolding in a once-unified group of wild chimpanzees say there are parallels ...

Somewhere in the deep past, long before cities, scriptures or even structured speech, an ancestor of ours did something ...

Spanning 1960 to 2026, these sci-fi movies simply can't be missed — they've helped define the genre and demonstrate its true ...

Fingerprints, present on humans and koalas, evolved for better grip and touch sensitivity, aiding tree-climbing. These unique ...