A 40,000-YEAR-OLD skeleton found in China has raised questions about the "out of Africa" hypothesis on how early modern humans populated the planet. ...
Sharing a meal, sometimes sitting face to face with strangers, is a curious act that sets humans apart from all other animals on the planet. So strange is this...
The parasite can only complete its life cycle if its rodent host is eaten by a cat, so it "brainwashes" the creature, with awesome accuracy, into liking the...
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. We do not know whether life occurs because of an extraordinary fluke of chemistry that...
This is a review of The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the true roles of women in prehistory by J. Adovasio, Olga Soffer & Jake Page, Collins, $27/£13.72, ISBN...
Beyond the lineage of primates, according to scientific gospel, social behavior is dictated primarily by competition for resources such as food, territory and...
A dangerous idea is like any other peril: One's first impulse on confronting it is to fight or run away. This simple observation goes a long way toward...
Computer reconstructions of a 1.9-million-year-old skull suggest that early modern humans looked more like apes than thought—but other experts are cautious...
The most infamous feud in American folklore, the long-running battle between the Hatfields and McCoys, may be partly explained by a rare, inherited disease...
If you could know how long you will live, would you want the answer? New scientific technology is making the task of predicting a person's life expectancy more...
Psychologist Wesley Schultz of California State University, San Marcos believes that despite the fact that we want to be normal, most people are very bad at...
Low birth rates are causing alarm in many developed countries, but Denmark bucks the trend with its high use of artificial reproductive technologies ...
A team of anthropologists said their study of South Texas fossil deposits revealed evidence including ancient teeth that shows the area was home to numerous...
A memory-enhancing pill capable of boosting people's ability to learn and remember is a step closer following the discovery of a gene in the brain that plays a...
I have a question regarding the highly interesting research of Gregory Cochran. As of what I have understood from different articles on the enhanced ...
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