For most of history, banking felt formal, distant, and highly structured. People walked into large buildings with marble ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

This wide-ranging overview traces human evolution from the earliest primates around 85 million years ago through the emergence of apes, australopithecines, and the many human species that followed. It ...

In this video, we explore the entire 13.8 billion year history of our Universe compressed into a single calendar year. Key ...

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

The discovery of fossilised human remains in the Sahara Desert has marked a new era in research on the history of human evolution. Researchers have discovered skeletons dating back 7,000 years that do ...

Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found ...

Kangaroos thrive on tough grass using thick enamel instead of complex teeth, revealing an unexpected path in evolution.

Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History more than 30 years ago, believing that the fall of the communist bloc would lead to ...

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