Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

But Beekman, along with a growing number of scholars, many of them women, emphasizes familial care in our understanding of ...

Global cooling associated with the impact of supernova remnants may have affected plants and animals, including species ...

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer to 1 in 31, or 3.2%. That’s far higher than what researchers observe in ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an ...

In today's era of rapid technological advancement, traditional control theory can no longer meet the increasingly complex demands of human-machine-environment interaction. As a result, an emerging ...

Analysis - What's the link between an exploding star, climate change and human evolution? Francis Thackeray, who has researched ancient environments and fossils for many years, sets out his ideas ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...