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Humanity is undeniably complex, and proud of it – no case, we believe, needs to be made for our biological superiority. But we may be doomed as a species precisely because of the way in which our complexity arose. 
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Toolmaking made us human. Early hominids understood cause and effect and came to believe in unseen gods and spirits as causes for life's great mysteries, including illness and death.
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Agriculture | Human Evolution | In light of the recent results in human evolutionary history some readers have appealed to me to create some sort of clearer infographic.
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We think of a physical object's being a certain color as a solid, immutable property (grass is green, lemons are yellow, et cetera). However, the way our brains see and process color is largely determined by the language we learned as an infant.
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Though ongoing human evolution is difficult to see, researchers believe they've found signs of rapid genetic changes among the recent residents of a small Canadian town.
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The possibility of evolving a quantum consciousness depends on numerous variables, and requires that we are not first exterminated by an asteroid impact, a nearby supernova, or gigantic volcanic eruptions, or our civilization is not decimated by...
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How did life on Earth begin? An giant step toward solving this puzzle was taken in the 1980's with the Nobel Prize–winning discovery by Tom Cech and Sidney Altman that RNA, the sister molecule of DNA, can catalyze certain chemical...
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A new study, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, combined for the first time data from short periods such as 10-100 years with much longer evidence found in the fossil record over millions of years.
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