A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

Jason Hodgson, an anthropologist and evolutionary geneticist at Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom, told Newsweek that 50,000 years is an "extremely long time" in the course of human ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Louis Rosenberg envisions a brave new world, where human / AI integration accelerates existing technology to offer human beings new "superpowers".

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

Evolution could alter or even eliminate some of the human traits we cherish most, changing forever what it means to be human. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists have proposed a new form of ancient humans. The Juluren, or “large head ...

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