Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...

Elena Bridgers, a science writer and researcher, told Newsweek that evolution "doesn't care" about gender and equality.

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

A new study uses neural networks to prove that memory and individual recognition allow cooperation to defeat selfishness in the prisoner's dilemma.

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...

Researchers who compared traits throughout many species of primates found that humans stand out because of bipedalism, along ...

The "prisoner's dilemma" is one of the most famous ideas in game theory. For decades, this game has been used to explain why selfishness often beats cooperation. In the prisoner's dilemma, two players ...

Research shows that consciousness is rooted in living intelligence. The future of our mental health depends on the ...

Future Human Theory suggests the ‘aliens’ in UFO sightings are time-travelling humans from our own doomed future (For illustration purposes only) Magda Ehlers: Pexels A leading biological ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...