Footprints from two hominin species found in Kenya suggest they lived and interacted together over a million years ago. Over ...

HEFEI — Chinese scientists have unearthed dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, the earliest evidence in East ...

By exploring the conservation and functional diversity of RIPK3 and related RHIM-containing proteins across vertebrates, this important work sheds light on the evolutionary dynamics of these key ...

Sharks have roamed the open seas for close to half a billion years and have witnessed the Earth’s evolution from a primordial ...

The story of human evolution is more intricate than ever, especially in eastern Asia during the Late Quaternary period, ...

Humans and relatives evolved larger brains through gradual changes within species, not sudden leaps. This study challenges ...

AI and the climate crisis feature prominently this spring, alongside natural histories of periodic elements, the life stories ...

Journey through the cognitive hierarchy—from symbols to AI—and unlock the boundless creativity of the human mind.

A new laboratory study in mice suggests that primates like humans evolved large brains with a helping hand from microbes that ...

Natural selection isn't just something that happens to organisms, their activities also play a role, giving some species – ...

The fact that you’re reading this right now, or doing anything for that matter, is at least partly down to humans evolving ...

Their calculations reveal that life on Earth has cycled all of the planet’s carbon roughly 100 times. But the researchers ...