Innovation in Stone Tool Technology Involved Multiple Stages at the Time of Modern Human Dispersals Feb. 7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately ...

Survival of the fittest’ is Darwin 101. But did you know that Charles Darwin didn’t actually coin that phrase? Let’s explore ...

Domesticated dogs may have a third-wave evolution to become better human companions. A generation or two ago, dogs were ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered “hominin” group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding ...

Most of us do it, be it romantic, familial, friendly or formal, but kissing among humans and where and how it originated is ...

The development of primate brains is shaped by various inputs. However, these inputs differ between independent breeders, ...

This is a new and refreshing introduction to the human species that places modern humans squarely in evolutionary perspective and treats evolution itself as a continuing genetic process in which every ...

Researchers have uncovered how social interactions influence brain development in common marmosets, drawing parallels with ...

“That is what it means to be human—to extend who we are.” Clearly Harbisson’s antenna is merely a beginning. But are we on the way to redefining how we evolve? Does evolution now mean not ...

Is Human Evolution Over? Briana Pobiners research centers on the evolution of human diets (especially meat-eating) in Africa and Asia, but has included topics as diverse as cannibalism in the Cook ...

Why is human culture -- the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations -- so much more powerful than animal cultures?

A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but ...