She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the remarkable remains continue to yield theories and questions. In a ...

Recent analysis of ancient antelope teeth has provided unexpected insights into the lives of early humans, challenging long-held assumptions about their daily activities and environments. These ...

Human behavior is an enigma that fascinates many scientists. And there has been much discussion over the role of probability in explaining how our minds work. Probability is a mathematical framework ...

Why is human culture - the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations - so much more powerful than animal cultures? "What's special about our species?" is a question scientists have ...

The small behaviours reveal what people are thinking, hiding, or feeling. Psychology says the more you understand human behaviour, the less surprised you are by betrayal. Here are 10 interesting ...

Some 4,000 years ago, as ancient civilizations such as the Minoans in Crete and the Neo-Sumerian Empire in Mesopotamia were shaping cultures in Europe and the Middle East, human biology itself was ...