Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Reflecting on the personality trait that might have led one famous German to refuse to salute despite the potential cost.

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current ...

This figure from the paper shows the evolution of root types from teosinte to modern corn over the last 10 000 years, simulated using the modeling program OpenSimRoot, which was developed by ...

Corn was domesticated from its ancestor teosinte in central Mexico beginning about 9,000 years ago by humans selectively breeding the wild plant, transforming its small, hard-shelled kernels into the ...

The Eugenics Record Office thought pseudoscience could make more perfect humans. It led to unspeakable tragedy.

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When it comes to attraction, the eyes often tell the story. But what happens when the gaze itself tells us something deeper—about how people perceive and evaluate faces differently based on their ...

Swaths of northern India are gripped by a heatwave, hitting humans as well as wildife including monkeys. Here, monkeys sit on a roadside in India's capital New Delhi ...

Stephen Shore, an autistic professor of special education at Adelphi University, has said: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” This quote is popular in the ...

When we talk about our personality, many of us treat it as a fixed, unchanging part of us. But the truth is our personality can evolve and often does, even without us deliberately trying. For example, ...

Haran was clearly a place open to goodness. Abraham believed what modern society often forgets: Culture is the most important thing about a place and its people. Yet in modern America, many ...