Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

The scientific wonderers at What If fast-forward through millions of years of primate development to show the path that led to modern people.

A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

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Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

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Tsukuba, Japan—Previous scholars have widely proposed that the emergence of advanced cognitive abilities and sociality in humans originated in Africa during the MSA. However, the specific mechanisms ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...