The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years of fossil and ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Book of the Day: For serious readers willing to grapple with its complexity, it offers not definitive answers but a radical ...

The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

Abstract: The current video game industry faces soaring development costs and intensified market competition, underscoring the critical demand for more systematic game design methodologies. While ...

In July 2020, a conspiracy theory about Wayfair took off on social media sites like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, alleging that the furniture company was part of a vast child sex trafficking scheme.

Abstract: Drawn from Gibson's Affordance Theory, this study explored young generations' attitudes toward perceived enjoyment and perceived anxiety in human-AI interactions. Particularly, we examined ...