While dogs and cats are genetically unrelated, breeding for certain features is making some dog and cat breeds look more and ...

Everyone’s seen Rudolph Zallinger’s “The March of Progress” illustration showcasing the evolution of humans: from early ...

A recent groundbreaking study has radically altered our understanding of human evolution. Homo sapiens, traditionally thought ...

The beginning of Homo sapiens belief in gods did not start with a sense of awe, as primitive human beings observed the sun and moon with a sense of wonder. That is too philosophical. More likely it ...

A new genomic study in Science encompassing more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 years has revealed how a single wave of Neanderthal gene flow into early modern humans left an indelible ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

The challenge lies in our willingness to embrace AI as an extension of our cognitive capabilities rather than viewing it as a ...

That said, behavioral research suggests that human nature might constrain how long democracies can survive and how widely ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

which are one of the closest relatives to Homo sapiens. Matsumoto-Oda, who is an evolutionary biologist at Japan’s University of the Ryukyus, and her colleagues describe their findings in a new ...

Early humans had almost no hope of surviving severe burns, so evolution may have prioritised the selection of genes that heal ...