DNA switches that predate humans and Neanderthals still influence how people speak today, offering new clues about language ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Biological anthropology explores human evolution, biological diversity and primate behavior. Research in this area examines how humans emerged as a species, how we vary today and how biology interacts ...

NEW YORK -- It's the season of giving thanks -- and it turns out humans have been doing it for a long, long time. As more researchers dig into the science of gratitude, they've found the feeling ...

Seals and sea lions can adjust their voices, keep a beat, and even mimic human speech patterns, and a growing body of neuroscience research now explains why. A study published March 12, 2026, in the ...

Historically, neuroscientists and evolutionary anthropologists assumed that modern humans' disproportionately large frontal lobes and the explosive growth of our prefrontal cortex millennia ago were ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the season of giving ...