Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from the fermented sugars.

The modern educational experience is a clear example of how mismatched today's world is from ancestral conditions.

A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

The Weather Company’s Cold & Flu Tracker does a lot more than just signal that flu season has arrived. It quietly analyzes the atmosphere around you, helping to inform your decisions as you go about ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly dependent on increases in prenatal estrogen—revealed by looking at the length ...

Artificial intelligence experts have warned that AI "swarms" are poised to infiltrate social media by deploying agents that mimic human behavior and exploit our tendency to follow the herd. When you ...

As the full moon peaks in the night sky, a transformation occurs—flesh turns to fur, finger nails to claws, man to beast. The sinister howls of the werewolf have permeated folklore for centuries, but ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Osman is a finance expert with over 30 years of experience. I was scrolling through TikTok when a fresh-faced woman appeared ...