Researchers say the 4.5 million-year old fossil shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously suggested.
Simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers, researchers discover why biological networks tend to be organized as modules, a finding that will lead to a deeper understanding of the evolution of complexity.
Women who are sexually active on at least a monthly basis have a lower risk of early menopause than women who have sex less frequently, a new study reports.
Researchers discover some crocodiles use lures to hunt their pray, suggesting they are cleverer than previously believed.
According to a new study, a man's attraction to curvy women is rooted in evolution.
A new paper proposes resonance may contribute to human consciousness.
A new associative learning model may help explain animal behavior and intelligence.
A recent neuroimaging study casts doubt on theories that Austalopithecus africanus' infant brain development was similar to that of modern human infants.
When the expression of the ER-alpha gene was blocked in white-throated sparrows, the level of aggression they exhibited decreased.
Aggression levels are reduced in male chimpanzees when social relations within their group become unstable.
A new study reveals schizophrenia is a modern development that emerged after humans diverged from Neanderthals.
A new study reports selfish people are more likely to have less children and earn less money than their more generous peers.
