Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to spread its reach from the tidal pools to the oceans to ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed the fossilized skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, to aid their research A human skull found in 1990 is now changing scientists' understanding ...

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 ...

Ray Kurzweil predicts A.I. will reach human-level intelligence by 2029. Courtesy Kurzweil Technologies. “Hollywood portrays A.I. as an alien invasion,” Kurzweil tells Observer. “I don’t see it that ...

Reactions to Kimmel's suspension, Trump publicly rebukes Putin, and more Length: Long Speed: 1.0x Every three months, participants in the Metaculus forecasting cup try to predict the future for a ...

Human evolution may no longer be driven primarily by genetics, according to a new theory by researchers at the University of Maine which claims that cultural systems are now shaping the way humans ...

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking recognized AI's immense potential to solve global challenges and improve lives. However ...