Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia for more than 300,000 years before the arrival of anatomically modern humans, only to ...

A new study suggests that the human brain evolved for small, close knit communities and immediate challenges, making it ...

Modern, human-made environments that feature certain design elements can overload the brain, causing visual discomfort and ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

The human brain evolved for a world of familiar faces, immediate threats and small social groups. But the world around us is changing far faster than human biology can keep pace. That mismatch may ...

ZME Science. When scientists examined the incredibly well-preserved skeleton of a Neanderthal infant from an Israeli cave, ...

Researchers studied ancient tooth fossils and found that a gene mutation in modern humans (right) better protected them against lead and gave them an advantage over Neanderthals (left). Kyle Dykes / ...

Differences in brain shape between a present-day human (left, in blue) and a Neanderthal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints (right, in red). Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Simon ...

Historically, neuroscientists and evolutionary anthropologists assumed that modern humans' disproportionately large frontal lobes and the explosive growth of our prefrontal cortex millennia ago were ...