The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Paranthropus boisei, Paranthropus robustus, and Paranthropus aethiopicus are examined as a distinct but debated branch of early human evolution. Their huge molars, powerful jaws, sagittal crests, and ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

A newborn cannot speak, read, or walk. Yet moments after entering the world, the infant brain already responds to rhythm and ...

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

The modern educational experience is a clear example of how mismatched today's world is from ancestral conditions.

(Edsel Querini/iStock/Getty Images) For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on ...

From hardliner to dealmaker, Marco Rubio evolves on Cuba, taking charge of Trump’s talks with Havana.

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the ...

A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why.