Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I explore the emerging belief that humans ...

Everything that is alive today has evolved, including human beings. Our ancestors evolved many traits that helped them survive in their environments, and we still have many of those traits today. Two ...

In a previous post, I revealed that a prospective partner’s ability to obtain wealth is a prioritized trait in mate choice and that this pattern is fairly consistent across cultures. Examining the ...

Modern humans evolutionarily split from our chimpanzee ancestors nearly 7 million years ago, yet we are continuing to evolve. 155 new genes have been identified within the human lineage that ...

Humans have existed as a distinct species for roughly 315,000 years, and for all but a fraction of that time, we drank just one liquid after weaning: water. Boring, flat, calorie-free, water – with ...

UCSD cognitive scientist Rafael Nunez, seen from the back, conducts a counting experiment with the resident of a village in Papua New Guinea in this undated photograph. Sign on to any news website and ...

Hope isn't everything but it's something, and placebos have been providing it for millennia. People who believed the shaman's, priest’s, and fortune teller’s hopeful pep talks had a survival advantage ...

A record-smashing heat wave and massive wildfires are scorching Europe. On this side of the Atlantic, over 100 million Americans are under an excessive heat warning or heat advisory. Oppressive heat ...

Evan Simons, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Anthropology, answers a question for The Conversation’s “Curious Kids” feature. Everything that is alive today has evolved, including ...