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

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

Scientists explore whether humor influenced language evolution, suggesting "survival of the wittiest" shaped communication ...

Is there really such a thing as human nature? The answer lies between two old extremes, and getting it right shapes how we face AI, authoritarianism, and climate.

A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...

Human evolution is generally explained through changes in brain size, locomotion or tool use, but new research from Wits ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

Thirty years ago, it was our common sense understanding that hantavirus does not and perhaps cannot spread from human to ...

As organizations rush to move AI into production, they’re finding that the tools they rely on to monitor traditional software ...

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...

We might not have to go scorched Earth after all. Contrary to popular belief, the Earth might actually weather the fiery death of the sun that’s expected to engulf our neighbors, per a relieving study ...