A new scientific study led by paleontologist Stephen Chester, an Anthropology professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, is shedding fresh light on how the earliest known primate ...

A new scientific study led by paleontologist Stephen Chester , an Anthropology professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and ...

Chimpanzees can pick out crystals from a pile of ordinary rocks, handle them with visible care, and even hold them up to peer ...

Crows can recognize geometric patterns, suggesting that humans aren't unique in understanding shape structure.

New fossil discoveries in the Balkans suggest that the first human ancestors may have originated in Europe rather than Africa ...

Macaque’s social tolerance grades, through its underlying cognitive demands, shape subcortical structures volumes.

Macaque species that live in more tolerant social groups have larger volumes in brain regions tied to social processing, according to a study published in eLife that compared neuroanatomy across ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

He’s expecting the same trend for the Internet of Cognition, writing that “scaling out superintelligence is a call to action. The next era of computation demands a unified commitment to building the ...

One eye-catching detail is the researchers’ estimate that the bone likely belonged to a small female, about 24 kg, and nicknamed “Diva.” Spassov noted the fossil seems to sit somewhere between older, ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

The Bone Museum is a collection that proves New Yorkers will make a museum out of absolutely anything, and we’re all better off for it. Glass cases filled with skulls stretching into the distance, ...