New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Human languages are known to have grown and changed considerably over the course of history, often reflecting technological, ...

For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Earlier this month, the corporation Anthropic announced that its latest model, Claude Mythos Preview, is too dangerous for public release. During testing, ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...