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 ...

Cumulative culture -- the accumulation of technological modifications and improvements over generations -- allowed humans to adapt to a diversity of environments and challenges. But, it is unclear ...

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Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...

Gen Fukunaga, founder and former CEO of Funimation, has joined adult animation outfit Bizaar Studios as a stakeholder and strategic advisor. Fukunaga will develop original animation with the company, ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Jeff Goldblum? Flesh eating dinosaurs in captivity? You got it. Jurassic World Evolution 3 is here and we have a couple clips of Jeff Goldblum introducing the world of Dinosaurs, how it all began in ...

An introduction can make or break a song, as exemplified by these iconic classic rock intros. The first 30 seconds (or more) of a song serve as a musical first impression, setting the sonic stage for ...

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One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, palaeoanthropology and its related fields ...