Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

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

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

A new study shows monkeys can perceive and sync to a musical beat, challenging assumptions about rhythm, evolution, and ...

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

Marcus Mariota will be the guest picker for Saturday’s ESPN “College GameDay” show, the network announced in a social media post Thursday. Saturday... On this week’s episode, Jack and Owen dive into ...

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...

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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 ...

A 146,000-year-old skull recovered near Harbin, China, by scientists decades ago has now been found to belong to the Denisovans, an extinct relation to modern humans who lived in Siberia and East Asia ...

Human evolution may no longer be driven primarily by genetics, according to a new theory by researchers at the University of Maine which claims that cultural systems are now shaping the way humans ...