A digitally reconstructed skull discovered in China has scientists questioning long-held beliefs about the timeline of human ...
A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.
The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.
In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...
The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...
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 ...
Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...