Land reform in South Africa has followed a familiar script—conquest, displacement, and struggle. The names change, but the fights remain the same.

Skeletal evidence shows that these hominids walked upright ... The advantages of bipedalism paved the way for the evolution of Homo sapiens. Bipedal Australopithecus are the ancestors of modern ...

Suddenly the piston, coupling and connecting rods of the steam engine sprang to life. The wheels that had been arrested and ...

This discovery contrasts with the idea that meat consumption played a central role in the early evolution of hominids. Australopithecus, unlike Neanderthals, did not hunt large mammals. Researchers ...

The emergence of artistic expression, abstract thought, and symbolic behavior may have occurred much earlier in human history than previously assumed. Presenting a collection of deliberate engravings ...

They say it's important to look to the past in order to move forward into the future. Humans have evolved considerably, but that doesn't mean that early hominids didn't make decisi ...

Early hominids, like Australopithecus ... As we travel forward through history, one of the most profound changes was the evolution of the brain. Our ancestors’ brains began growing larger ...

Claims that we ought to subscribe to a low-carb, high-protein 'paleo diet' are typically based on assertions our ancestors avoided complicated plant processing in favor of simpler meals consisting of ...

Repeats Raise Risk. The more STR expansions a person carried, the higher their odds for AD (left). People with more repeat expansions tended to have worse tau pathology as per Braak stage (right).

NARRATOR: But exactly how this spectacular evolution took place ... So it's easy to think about magpies and their relatives as the hominids of the bird world. They're the smart ones.