From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have ...

What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

The images above depict artificially-derived neurons grown in petri dishes, with a human neuron shown on the left. Artificially-derived chimpanzee neurons grow only one or two neurites (connecting ...

Our species is the last living member of the human family tree. But just 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals walked the Earth, and hundreds of thousands of years before then, our ancestors overlapped with ...

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

Like the latest iPhone model, new dog breeds drop all the time. In early 2025, the American Kennel Club officially announced the Danish-Swedish Farmdog as the 202nd recognized dog breed. It’s only the ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...

Tightly curled and long scalp hair of ancient hominins could have evolved to shield the scalp from the sun, reduce heat transmission due to the air pockets between the curls and minimize water loss ...

Is God a singular, independent being? Or just an evolved projection of human's theory of what God should be? Slate's Jesse Bering finds himself asking these heady questions after an analysis of how ...