More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

"One Hand Clapping" draws from neuroscience, evolution, philosophy and a rich tapestry of cultural references to examine how ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Shanda Group has entered a period of renewed visibility, with a series of incubated ventures coming to light over the past ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.