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Study shows cognitive shortcut we have built into our brains to be generous or fair can be easily switched off if we learn there will not be any payback. (Photo: Pixabay)

City life makes humans less kind to strangers, says study

Study supports the theory that our ingrained cooperative spirit is a remnant of our evolutionary past.

25 Oct 2018 11:10 AM IST

The discovery adds to a growing body of evidence that cave painting did not emerge only in Europe, as was once thought. (Photo: AFP)

Painted 40,000 years ago, world's earliest figurative art cave...

Painting in Borneo, possibly depicting native type of wild cattle, is among thousands of artworks discovered decades ago...

8 Nov 2018 11:05 AM IST

When we lose weight, the stomach releases greater amounts of a hormone called ghrelin, which makes us feel hungry. (Photo: Pixabay)

Here's why you feel more hungry after you lose weight

Obesity needs to be handled as a chronic disease in line with other chronic illnesses.

10 Feb 2018 1:31 PM IST

The researchers found that the animals eat the brains of infants, adolescents and juveniles first.

Meat-eating chimps that hunt baby monkeys could reveal new clues on...

Researchers believe habit, coming from species that humans probably share common ancestor with, likely speaks to human...

13 April 2018 12:59 PM IST

Basic moral terms became dramatically scarcer in English-language books as the 20th century unfolded, but an equally dramatic rebound began in about 1980.

As a society, we are more compassionate today'

Throughout 1980s, Anglophone world has remoralised', as moral language became prevalent in its culture'.

17 March 2019 5:19 AM IST

This is a game changer in our understanding of human evolution during the Pliocene. (Photo: AFP)

Discovery of early human skull to change understanding of evolution

Skull find in Ethiopia yields new clues on how humans evolved.

29 Aug 2019 12:15 PM IST

French paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin (right) and Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer of the National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage Sciences in Morocco hold a skull of Homo Sapiens discovered in Morocco. (Photo: AFP)

New finding changes human family tree

The story of human evolution, this shows, does not follow a straight line from monkey to ape-man to architect.

13 Jun 2017 3:03 AM IST

Women with a very narrow pelvis would not have survived birth 100 years ago. (Photo: Pixabay)

Caesarean births are impacting human evolution

An increasing number of mothers now need surgery to deliver a baby due to their narrow pelvis size.

6 Dec 2016 7:21 PM IST