The most exciting popular science reads this month explore everything from symbiosis to hormones, while Alice Roberts takes ...

Anthropologist and author David Samson examines how the story of human sleep unfolded in his new book, “The Sleepless Ape.” ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Animated three-dimensional illustrations present the evolution of mankind from the earliest animal in the earliest days of life on Earth.

From the origins of the universe to modern society, the book offers a shared foundation for learning, dialogue, and a better future We wanted to create a book that helps people share a common view of ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...