Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A University of Hawaiʻi researcher may have identified a new human species, Homo ...

While humans share over 95% of their genome with chimpanzees, our brains are far more complex due to differences in gene expression.

The genetics behind the alternating sexes of walnut trees have been revealed by biologists at the University of California, ...

If man had simply evolved alongside other organisms, as scientists posit, why would his life role so completely depart from the established standard of every other organism upon the Earth?

Police said the suspect tried unsuccessfully to rob a couple at knifepoint near Dow and Park Streets, then ran to another man a short distance away and also tried to rob him.

Joan of Arc was as religious as a person can get without turning into a stained-glass window. When she was just 13 she claimed to have been visited by three saints – Michael, Catherine and Margaret.

The challenge facing our society, especially in parenting and education, is how to foster compassion across all areas of life ...

Darwin was just 22 when he set out on a voyage that would change the way humanity understands itself and the natural world ...

A tender response to the perception of another’s distress, compassion moves human beings from observation to action ...

Shadi Bartsch is a professor in humanities at the University of Chicago and former director of the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. She wrote this for the Chicago Tribune.

The theory of evolution, first articulated by Charles Darwin in the 19th century, has been the foundation of biological ...