This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 300,000 years has revealed a lost chapter in human history.

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