The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...

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For decades, we’ve been taught that human life began in East Africa. But a groundbreaking new fossil discovery in Egypt is ...

The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for ...

Stromatolites might look like rocks. But they are living relics of ancient systems that thrived on Earth billions of years ...

Researchers who observed a murderous conflict unfolding in a once-unified group of wild chimpanzees say there are parallels ...

A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.

A 289-million-year-old mummified fossil of Captorhinus aguti, discovered in a Richards Spur, Oklahoma cave, has revealed the ...

Did cooking shape human evolution? Discover how fire, food and brain development are linked, and why modern diets may be ...

A fossilized femur attributed to the hominin species Graecopithecus freybergi is offering fresh clues about how human ...