The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

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

Blushing, a uniquely human physiological response, signals social awareness and genuine emotion. This involuntary reddening ...

FRIEDRICH ENGELS’S essay on the origins of our species is today recognised as a foundational text, not just of Marxism, but of today’s physical and social anthropology.Like most of Engels’s ...

Outside of humans, orangutans are the primate outlier when it comes to long childhoods, reaching adulthood at eight to 10 ...

For the first time, new theoretical models, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, connect the magnetism at the surface of long-dead stellar remnants (white dwarfs) with recent evidence of magnetism ...

Francis Collins explains why many of history’s greatest scientists believed faith and science could work together.

Evolution is a funny thing. Things always changing, I mean. Not that I believe that human beings evolved from the goo of a warm little pond, rather it is the ...

It’s ancient, unstoppable and strangely contagious. Here’s what science now knows about the humble yawn, and why evolution ...

Dr. Mike Dacey analyses the challenges researchers face when studying the cognitive and emotional lives of animals and offers ...

Lock eyes with a chimpanzee, and you will notice something is missing. The tissue surrounding their iris, called the sclera, ...