The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

A set of burned human bones unearthed in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift may hold the oldest known evidence of cremation, pushing a ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

The research unveils a more intricate narrative of innovation, intelligence, and human evolution in East Asia.

I want AI to be a tool that allows human flourishing!” exclaimed Brad Carson, a former member of Congress. “There is an ...

Genes make us who we are—but are they shaped by chance, natural selection, or something else?

Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago used aconitine, a highly toxic plant ...

Over 80 percent of the world’s population is currently heating up for summer, and with it comes the realization that many of ...

Zhao concluded that the research reveals a much richer story of innovation, intelligence and human evolution in East Asia.

A new study suggests the answer may trace back to two major shifts in human evolution: walking upright and growing bigger ...

Humans' near-universal right-handedness, unlike other primates, is now understood. An Oxford study reveals this trait evolved ...

Archaeologists might have just discovered the world’s earliest known human cremation in the Afar ...