This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...
In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...
A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...
In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...
Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...