In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.

Analysis of 27 genomes reveals more diverse, better-connected populations and challenges the idea that genetic decline caused ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that story sits a long, quiet stretch when almost nothing seems to happen.

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Compared to other primates, humans have evolved dramatic changes to cognitive and social behaviors. However, little is known about the molecular, cellular and circuit-level modifications in the human ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that ...

So I’ve been looking into OpenClaw this morning, where it came from, why it exists and why it’s so successful – and that led me to the following post. Now I should point out that I’m coming at this ...

The scientific wonderers at What If track the strange medical and social journey of a person who starts life as an elder and grows into a helpless infant. US Senate passes Homeland Security deal ...