Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

History is often shaped by moments of profound change—inflection points that redefine what’s possible, much like cosmic asteroids that strike the planet and alter the course of evolution. Today, we ...

The period preceding the emergence of behaviourally modern humans was characterised by dramatic climatic and environmental variability - it is these pressures, occurring over hundreds of thousands of ...

The period preceding the emergence of behaviorally modern humans was characterized by dramatic climatic and environmental variability - it is these pressures, occurring over hundreds of thousands of ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series on cognition and consciousness. Part 1 explored what we mean by "cognition." In Parts 2 and 3, we examined neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux’s strict definition, which ...

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team led by Prof. Dr Henrik Kaessmann at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg ...

Individual Polistes fuscatus wasps can recognize their very different faces. Scientists have long wondered how prehistoric humans quickly unstuck themselves from the Stone Age and became as ...