However, paleoanthropologists, who look for evidence explaining human evolution, are far from convinced. The chances that ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

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.

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

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

Words vanish the instant they’re spoken, and no skeleton can tell us when our ancestors first started talking. So how can scientists possibly trace the origins of something as fleeting as the human ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.

A cutting-edge analysis of the teeth from Homo naledi skeletons in a South African cave system found no males within the ...

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 ...

“The good news is that in principle AI can help build cognitive empathy,” Wright says. “It can help us get better at ...