The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we ...

Imagine a race where the competitors are not human athletes but futuristic entities: AI-powered robots, enhanced humans with ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

According to Dr. Hare, dogs are now going through a third evolution of domestication and it is beneficial for all humans.

Our readers look back to the oldest known musical instrument and consider the role music had in bringing communities together ...

The emergence of new viruses is often unpredictable, jumping as they might from infecting one species to another. A November ...

The temporal lobe—a key area of our brain responsible for our memory and communication—could also reveal hidden clues about ...

In romantic movies, kissing often symbolizes love, yet this simple act of pressing lips together has peculiar origins.

A variety of researchers are converging on the view that human evolution has been shaped by ... of the genome that have been identified as being subject to recent selection, few causal variants ...

The origin of life, and how to get to that very point, have been as mysterious as they are fascinating. It is one of the greatest questions that humans have att ...

But after two decades of research, and no small amount of controversy, we can be sure that Homo floresiensis wasn’t really anything close to a short human with big feet and a penchant for seed ...