Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than once believed.

In a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Wanyue Zhao and her colleagues used volatile organic ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them ...

Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.

Annette Rose, the Sausalito bohemian who championed its artists, counterculture and waterfront communities as an organizer, City Council member, mayor and Marin County supervisor for a quarter-century ...

Following a chance encounter on the train, Polish conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant welcomed me into her multidisciplinary universe, where anthropology meets art meets sociology meets philosophy ...

She’s ‘the queen of Colombian trap music’. She also appears in thriller show Fake Profile, “the most-viewed Latin series on Netflix the year it came out”. (Her song ‘Problem Boy’ – actually ...

But it is on the Somali question that Mr Gachagua has outdone himself. I do not honestly believe Mr Gachagua knew that the ...

As alternative meat products continue to rise in popularity, the troubles of toxic masculinity are becoming increasingly ...

“Axolotls are legendary for regenerating limbs and parts of the central nervous system,” says study co-author Maximina H. Yun, a biologist at the Chinese Institutes for Medical Research in Beijing.

Neural Atrophy of the Sacred”—the physical degradation of the brain’s capacity for deep contemplative thought and ...