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 ...

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 ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood, during which parents, grandparents and other adults contribute to their physical and cognitive development. This is a key ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

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

Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating ...

New research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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