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

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

Their eerily simple “doomsday argument” relies solely on the laws of probability and a single data point: the total number of ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Cavemen gathered shellfish to eat using the same methods as modern humans, according to new research. Neanderthals in ...

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

This photo taken on Dec 6, 2024 shows human skull fossil fragments displayed at the exhibition hall of Hualongdong site in Dongzhi county of Chizhou city, East China's Anhui province. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

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