“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

The idea of life on Earth without humans may seem like science fiction, but it has become the subject of serious scientific ...

Throughout history, Jews have been denounced as “moneylenders,” yet, as Carl Menger noted, there are very good reasons why Jewish people have been ...

Stanford psychologist Jeremy Bailenson, who studies how immersive environments reshape perception, has shown that extended ...

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

“While the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusual large size evolved as a sexual ornament to attract females rather than purely as a badge of status to ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

Size matters” sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle. Compared to other great apes, such as chimpanzees and go ...

Chronic time pressure strains mental health, suggesting relief may come from loosening time’s control rather than managing it ...

Molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon speaks about her seminal discovery and excitement for the future of longevity research ...