I wasn't very good at math when I was a student. That's always been a great disappointment to me, because being able to intelligently manipulate numbers seems to be one of the great achievements of ...

The human ability to teach and our use of complex tools may have evolved together, according to new research. The human ability to teach and our use of complex tools may have evolved together, ...

A new study finds that chimpanzees that use a multi-step process and complex tools to gather termites are more likely to share tools with novices. The study helps illuminate chimpanzees' capacity for ...

Our hominid ancestors Homo erectus turned rocks like this into complex tools nearly two million years ago…hundreds of thousands years earlier than previously thought. The new find helps fill in some ...

In 320,000-year-old colored rocks and sophisticated stone tools uncovered at an archaeological site in southern Kenya, scientists say they've found early evidence of what makes humans unique. The ...

The human ability to teach and our use of complex tools may have evolved together, according to new research. The improvement of technologies across generations, known as "cumulative cultural ...