On a tiny sanctuary island in Uganda, researchers devised a simple experiment that would challenge one of the oldest ideas about what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. Two boxes were ...

Yale University’s Mark Sheskin will answer that question at the 10th annual Darwin Day Dinner, an event which includes cocktail hour, dinner, and science quiz (with prizes), on Saturday evening, Feb.

Yale-led researchers recently conducted a massive and detailed comparative analysis of human, chimpanzee and macaque brains. Their paper, "Molecular and Cellular Reorganization of Neural Circuits in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — What makes humans unique? Scientists have taken another step toward solving an enduring mystery with a new tool that may allow for more precise comparisons between the DNA of modern ...