After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

As evidence of alcohol's harms mounts, some people are testing out sobriety. Look to ancient civilizations' ways for a reset, scholars suggest.

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

Is man's ability to perceive the form of objects inborn or must it be learned? Experiments indicate that it is innate but ...

Last Wednesday, Professor of Social Sciences Samuel Putnam delivered his inaugural lecture as the A. Myrick Freeman Chair in Social Sciences, titled “The Outer Edges of Nature and Nurture.” Speaking ...

Primarily undergraduate institutions should not be left out of conversations over shifts in federal research funding, Andrea ...

In four papers, the Costs of War project examined casualties, displacement and U.S. spending and military aid in the war.

Unfortunately for the 2014 Cambridge-Isanti High School graduate, he has an amazing and exciting story to tell. It’s not as ...

As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior—the building blocks ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

The inability to distinguish between normal aging and menopause-specific changes is “a real blind spot,” according to Melby. ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...