You have a finely honed sense of privacy in the physical world. But the sights and sounds you encounter online don’t help you detect risks and can even lull you into a false sense of security.

Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.

To a group of hungry killer whales, a longline fishing boat looks like an all-you-can-eat buffet.

If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.

Having intelligence helps humans survive.

Toba eruption caused temperatures to plummet by up to 10°C in some regions – but not where most humans lived.

A new analysis of a 'lost' skull rewrites the recent family tree of the human species, showing our closest relatives lived in China.

Even though they cover most of our features, face masks are no match for our highly-evolved capacity to recognise friends.

Our biggest evolutionary advantages are an ability to walk on two legs and our big brains.

Our biggest evolutionary advantages are an ability to walk on two legs and our big brains.