A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

TIME: Much of what you write about in the book involves the idea of “dispersal” as an evolutionary process that could ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

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What will humans look like in the future? From stronger bodies to bigger brains, or maybe even merging with machines. Human ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

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 ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...