Dr. Stephanie Poindexter is a biological anthropologist at the University of Buffalo specializing in primatology.

This indicates periods of bloodshed, possibly due to local turmoil, executions or dynastic conflicts in the years before the Roman Conquest of Britain.

A new study by archaeologists at Bournemouth University (BU) has revealed that bodies recovered from a ‘war-cemetery’ ...

Human children take longer to mature because of evolutionary advantages such as brain development, learning, and cooperation.

"There is a significant difference in intelligence between monkeys and apes," Becky Malinsky, curator of primates at the ...

People living in poverty are significantly more likely to experience loneliness than those on higher incomes—and this may be ...

Leonardo da Vinci was the illegitimate son of a notary and a woman whose identity remains shrouded in mystery. He died in ...

Mike Africa Jr. was only 6 years old when Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on 6221 Osage Avenue. But he remembers ...

Lichens on stone, those "still explosions" as the great American poet Elizabeth Bishop named them, remain unseen to most, ...

Kanzi showed apes have the capacity for language, but in recent years scientists have questioned the ethics of ape experiments.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office is on a mission to solve older cases of unidentified people, and in the process, ...