Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood, during which parents, grandparents and other adults contribute to their physical and cognitive development. This is a key ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

Putting together the puzzle of human evolution sometimes comes down to about 32 pieces–our teeth. Several fossil teeth dating ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

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

Pope Francis recently expressed a pessimistic view on the forthcoming presidential election. He argued there is no alternative to voting in a democratic system and that all citizens must vote. In ...

The film is packed with cameos galore, with everyone from Chris Evans, who returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to play Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch, from his first superhero role in Fox’s ...

Researchers have uncovered how social interactions influence brain development in common marmosets, drawing parallels with human evolution. The study reveals that brain regions involved in social ...