From popular culture to the dark corners of the internet, there are many claims about “fundamental” differences between people on the basis of gender, racial or ethnic groups, sexuality, or other ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal some of the year’s most fascinating findings about human origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner An artist's depiction of a person carving a pendant from bones of ...

An Unseen Threat Picture this: you're walking down a dimly lit street at night, and every shadow seems to move. Your heart ...

As humans, we are constantly navigating social status, using subconscious strategies to assert either our dominance or ...

Freed from competition, their brains gradually grew larger, allowing for more complex behavior. Over millions of years ... Survival was a daily challenge, shaping human evolution both physically and ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

Our behavior seems to be built by evolution, and it's sometimes paradoxical. To borrow from the hard sciences, our behavior exhibits complementarity. We are largely felicitous to our family and ...

On a bright, late-summer day in north-central Europe around 300,000 years ago, a team of perhaps a couple dozen hunters got into their assigned positions for a big kill. Little did they know that ...