Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.
Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...
A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have ...
The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of Australopithecus afarensis, the early human ancestor famously represented by ...
A new archaeological study, conducted along the Jordan River banks south of northern Israel’s Hula Valley, offers a fresh ...
An international study reveals how early humans, as far back as 1.5 million years ago, deliberately selected specific stones ...
Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and ...
The authors present new expression analysis software (TEKRABber) to help analyze expression correlations between transposable elements (TEs) and KRAB zinc finger (KRAB-ZNF) genes in experimentaly ...