What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

Some 23,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last ice age, people walked across the muddy margins of an ancient lake ...

A large mustelid Pannonictis pliocaenicaKormos, 1931 (Ictonychinae, Mustelidae) is described from the Early Pleistocene Taurida Cave in central Crimea. The material includes a complete hemimandible ...

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...

A 165-million-year-old fossil has revealed an extraordinary Jurassic predator that may help explain how mammals developed one ...

Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm says bringing extinct species back can contribute to conservation, healthcare and ...

It's likely you've already chewed and swallowed some tasty morsel today. But when did that ability emerge? New evidence points to at least the middle Jurassic, back when dinosaurs still reigned.

Professor Ojetunji Aboyade in economics and Professor Akin Mabogunje in geography—teamed up to rescue global development from ...

New research looks at the surprising similarities in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gathers in Tanzania and horticulturalists ...

The microbiome isn’t what it used to be in many parts of the world. The shift of species may be affecting the well-being of ...

A facial reconstruction of the 315,000-year-old Jebel Irhoud skull, the earliest known Homo sapiens, shows room for a modern-sized brain and an upper face far wider than today's. A heavy ridge over ...

On the right is a depiction of an early Homo human ancestor characterized by relatively greater bone strength of the femur in the thigh compared to the humerus in the arm. To the left is a depiction ...