Fire has mesmerized us for as long as we’ve known how to control it. It warms us, feeds us, and lights our homes. But ...

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A new study led by our Psychology Department has revealed that children play a much bigger role in shaping human culture than ...

It’s not the students’ fault. Ecology and evolution offerings in the biology school curriculum are slim pickings: blink and you miss them among a sea of cells and neurons. The education system has ...

It often starts with something small: a text, a quick shout from the front yard, or a knock ...

There are museums, and then there’s the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The difference between the two is roughly ...

A new analysis suggests the evolution of human body size was marked by a major turning point rather than gradual growth.

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a rhythmic pattern. In other words, the same amount of time passed between each ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

This video traces the long evolutionary path from the first primates about 85 million years ago to modern Homo sapiens.

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and determined they were all female.

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