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A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

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Why are 90% of people right-handed and 10% left-handed? A modification of the well-known fighting hypothesis aims to explain ...

Scientists found special brain connections in seals and sea lions that help control vocal sounds. This may explain how speech ...

Cognitive warfare technologies now model and simulate human behavior at scale, raising concerns about autonomous digital ...

Pets play an important role in many people’s lives. In the UK, six out of ten households have at least one pet, dogs being ...

Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from ...

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at the ...