New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Hutcheson teaches leadership at Purdue University. In biology, nothing changes all at once. A single cell fires, a chemical ...

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the ...