The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

This important study probes the long-standing failure to resolve evolutionary relationships between the classical "spiralian" taxa - i.e., annelids, molluscs, brachiopods, platyhelminths and ...

Photo provided to China Daily] High on a cliff in Lushan county of Pingdingshan city, Central China's Henan province, a small cave is rewriting the story of the region's earliest modern humans. The ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

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

Members of the Atapuerca Research Team from the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), the Centro ...

Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren’t the sleek, limbless creatures we know today—they still had hind legs and even a ...

The Supreme Court held that secretly recorded conversations can be admitted if relevant and legally compliant. Privacy rights ...

As algorithms begin to testify in our courtrooms, the scales of justice are facing a digital recalibration that challenges ...

Fossil evidence suggests there were real ‘Kraken’ – finned octopuses who fed on large animals at the top of the food chain – ...

New chromosome-level evidence suggests Medicago evolution followed a more complex, and surprising path, than previously ...

A stone tomb near Paris held generations of dead, but the people buried there did not all belong to the same world. That is ...