Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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 ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...

This revised timeline can account for perplexing fossils that could not be conveniently categorized, and it supports the case for Asia being a main stage of human evolution, rather than just Africa ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

HEC Montréal provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. HEC Montréal provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. The goal of transhumanists is to improve human beings ...

A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed later in human evolution - BBC A digital reconstruction of a ...