One of those changes appears inside the skull, where the modern dog brain shows signs of steady growth. From there, a simple ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Humans are built for life on land, but what if evolution had taken a different path and sent us back into the ocean? To imagine this, we need to look at some of the ocean’s most incredible creatures ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Evolution's stock has plummeted but shows signs of recovery with reduced short positions and record-breaking player activity, signaling a potential turning point. Super-investor Kenneth Dart's ...

There are lots of ways to make a living as a clam, but probably one of the strangest is to be a “living drill bit.” Some species of clams are able to bore into solid rock or concrete—creating a burrow ...

In the winter of 1829, Dutch-Belgian anthropologist Philippe-Charles Schmerling discovered a fossil in a cave in Engis, Belgium — what looked like the partial skull of a small child. Schmerling is ...

Saini Samim receives funding from the Melbourne Research Schorship provided by the University of Melbourne. She has also received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Turkana Basin ...

Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will, by Kevin J. Mitchell, Princeton University Press, 352 pages, $29.95 What is free will? Can a being whose brain is made up of physical stuff actually make ...

Did you know that the so-called self-help industry is estimated to be worth $13.2 billion in 2022, up from $9.9 billion in 2016? What does that tell you about personal growth these days? Several ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...