Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between ...

The History of Almost Everything By Chip Colwell, Translated by Kim Byung-hwa, Buki, 456 pages, 27,000 Korean won 300,000 ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common and sophisticated, its effects on human lives and societies raises new questions. A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology posits ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a prehistoric cave dating back up to 400,000 years, revealing evidence of complex ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner A young chimpanzee looks on during an outing ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...