Does a male bird with a long and complex courtship dance have superior cognitive abilities? Simply put, is a talented dancer ...

Life on Earth has never been static. Over billions of years, the planet has experienced ice ages and warm periods, comet ...

There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, ...

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

A modest rise in summer temperatures may have been enough to bring humans back to post-ice-age Britain centuries earlier than ...

Spring was starting to pop out -- my favorite time of the year, and I was a bit disappointed in myself for not getting off ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell genes for foraging, while farmers' olfactory receptors evolved alongside ...

The sounds made by sperm whales are “one of the closest parallels” in the animal kingdom to the language of humans, a study ...

The human genome of West Eurasia has been far more affected by natural selection in the last 10,000 years than previously ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

Humans carry a surprising relic from deep evolutionary history, one that traces back to a tiny, one-eyed ancestor that lived ...