Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...

An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition For ...

Natural selection has long been considered the driving force behind human evolution. But a landmark study of 87 fossil skulls spanning the past two million years suggests the story is far more complex ...

A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo over 2.6 million years ago—overturning long-standing assumptions about the ...

Abstract This article is a response to the views expressed by Masanori Takezawa and Ryo Oda in "Adventures Around Classical ...

Construction litters the University of Oregon’s campus. From the high-rise apartment buildings being built down 13th Avenue to the various... Boise State University showed up to Autzen Stadium ready ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

A craving for sweets may have helped set the stage for the evolution of the human brain. Over 4 million years, our lineage’s brains grew from about 300 grams to 1,500 grams. Much of the brain growth ...