A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

If the researchers' hypothesis is correct, the fossil represents the earliest known instance of an injury caused by something ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

Researchers who investigated the remains of a young adult male found in the Qafzeh cave say the injury healed over time, ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Human-AI interactions can resemble human-human social interactions, with computers, and especially AI-driven technologies, becoming increasingly important social actors. It is in these interactions ...

A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the second ...

His superpower has always been speaking his mind – and his majestic new BBC show aims to shatter our ideas about life itself. The presenter talks mass extinction, spiders who dream and why people get ...