A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

Under the new structure, Stuardi will lead the newly established MRA Advisory Board, composed of professionals from across finance, strategy, and development. The board provides counsel, review, and ...

What happens when a creationist reads a science textbook? This video looks at a reaction that dismisses the age of the Earth, ...

Robert Gavlak wrote, in a guest column on Dec. 25, that religion and science don't belong in the same classroom. As a Catholic school teacher with a BA in math and an MA in religious studies, I agree.

At the end of 1924, an anthropologist began chipping away rock around an old primate skull — and rewrote the story of human evolution. The diminutive skull — about the size of a coffee mug — clearly ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in individual armor and produce far more ants. Larger colonies then ...

Map showing potential migration routes of the human ancestor, Homo erectus, in Africa, Europe and Asia during the early Pleistocene. Key fossils of Homo erectus and the earlier Homo habilis species ...