Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched ...

New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the first large-brained humans. That's because it dated back about a million ...

In about one out of every 800 people, two chromosomes fuse together to form an unusual bond. These are known as Robertsonian chromosomes. It's a mystery that has long stumped scientists.

Unlike other technologies, fibre optics transmit information through pulses of light based on two physical phenomena: ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

Not literally, of course. But similarly to an ant colony, two scientists say our collective culture—not genetics—has become the driving force of our evolution.

This shift isn’t just about faster problem-solving; it’s changing what it means to be human. Culture is inherently collective ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

There’s a problem with that “March of Progress” picture that’s so often used to illustrate our species’ development: it ends. Human evolution, the image implies, began in apehood and finishes here, ...