Hannah Chin and Nate Rott of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the building blocks of birdsong, the evolutionary history of avocados and Egyptian warrior princesses.
A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.
A new study found that a pachyderm skeleton, dismissed for decades as unimportant, offers evidence of careful planning, teamwork and a calculated kill.
A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.
Evolutionary biology professor Scott Solomon breaks down what changes the crew is experiencing in space and how those will manifest by the end of the mission.
A visionary evolutionary biologist, he drew comparisons to Charles Darwin with his theories on the genetic roots of seemingly detrimental behaviors like self-deception.
Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from the fermented sugars.
Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there.
Matilda Brindle, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford, explains.
The two artifacts date back 430,000 years.
AI:Scientists have recovered the oldest wooden tools ever discovered, dating back approximately 430,000 years in Greece.Open