Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

LUCKNOW: The Mahakumbh 2025 has gone into the annals of history as one of the biggest congregations of humanity on Earth with ...

Archaeologists have uncovered 700,000-year-old evidence of human activity in the Philippines, and it’s shaking up what we ...

Whether through agricultural practices, deforestation, or urbanization, how modern humans use land has had an unprecedented ...

We suggest that as the Earth changed physically and chemically over time, its surface conditions allowed for a greater diversity of habitats for life. And these changes operate on geologic timescales ...

Three Points Center, a residential treatment facility for adopted teens, has abruptly shut down on February 14, offering ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

We are shaped by our past and cannot escape our personal, familial or societal history. Caitlin Flanagan, whose writing in The Atlantic cuts to the heart of modern life’s most charged topics, has a ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

A new model upends the decades-old “hard steps” theory that intelligent life was an incredibly improbable event and suggests that maybe it wasn't all that hard or improbable. The team of researchers ...

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...