A study into tooth wear in a group of wild Japanese macaques has significant implications for the study of human evolution, a new study has shown. A study into tooth wear in a group of wild ...

Charles Darwin's theory ... that human beings were descended from apes, though Darwin only hinted at it. However, some were now willing to listen to evidence for evolution – especially from ...

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May 30, 2025 — A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested ...

The evolutionary link between sickle-cell trait and malaria resistance showed that humans can and do adapt. But are the “bugs” that make us sick evolving as well? While malaria is the best ...

That contentiousness, it turns out, is not merely a taxonomy quibble it is a window into the very center of the “muddle in the middle” of human evolution. Local Chinese farmers in the south of ...

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a model for understanding the motivations for human behavior. These include physiological needs, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.

It's been 23 years since a sci-fi cult classic transported people into a distant future, and now it's finally ready for a ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

“The really exciting part is that the human-associated lineage did recover and their effective population increased," she added. “That makes sense because modern humans moved out of caves abou ...

The research is published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. To find out how LLMs behave in social situations, researchers applied behavioral game theory—a method typically used to study how ...

Donald Trump has been slammed for sharing a baseless conspiracy theory about his presidential predecessor Joe Biden. In a baffling post on his social media platform Truth Social, President Trump ...