The “Discoverative” Ecosystem: Leveraging his decades of experience and research insights, Mr. Chen is now building a ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Misinformation isn’t just human. A new study shows how false signals spread across biology, from bacteria to bird flocks.

Italian brown bears have some remarkable characteristics. Learn more about these bears and how several factors made them docile.

Evolutionary psychology provides a foundational framework for understanding how cognitive and behavioral traits have evolved in response to recurring ...

The Day Science Fell for One of the Most Absurd Hoaxes Ever On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Schizophrenia affects around 23 million people globally, or one in 345 people. The illness can beset sufferers with ...

In July 1925, John Thomas Scopes, a Tennessee high school teacher, was tried for teaching that man descended from a lower ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East Africa, then spread south later. It’s clean, familiar, and easy to repeat.