domestication

Nearly 10,000 years ago, humans settling in the Fertile Crescent, the areas of the Middle East surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, made the first…

Nearly 40,000 years ago, humanity had its best idea to date: transform the age's apex predator into a sociable and loyal ally. Though early humans largely…

Earlier this year, researchers found new support for this second idea when they measured the extent to which the ability to follow pointing gestures runs in…