For millennia, the western chimpanzees of Taï National Park in Ivory Coast have communicated with each other in a dialect of ...

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that his AI startup is racing to secure the computing power needed to meet demand for its generative AI chatbot Claude. “The surge in demand ...

Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is perhaps the most famous, and certainly the most controversial, scientific theory ever ...

Human evolution is far from a relic of the past, as a new study in Behavior Genetics demonstrates. By analyzing data from ...

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In our modern world, accessing food and avoiding disease is a lot easier than it was throughout much of human history. The researchers describe in the paper how they analyzed World Health ...

Human genetic diversity and evolution rely on new mutations and exchange of DNA between chromosomes during the generation of sex cells, in a process called recombination. Recombination manifests ...

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the potential to answer crucial questions, for example, when did our ancestors begin to incorporate ...

Our hands perform thousands of complex tasks every day – can artificial intelligence help robots match these extraordinary human appendages? The human hand is one of the most staggeringly ...