New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from ...

Jessica Skon, CEO of BTS, global change and simulation company located in 38 offices, throughout 24 countries, says, “The ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

As Tesla touts the cutting-edge nature of its new Full Self Driving software , rival Mercedes-Benz says it has developed a similar system but stops short of allowing members of the public to take it ...

From ancient apes to modern humans, this video breaks down the entire evolutionary timeline. Learn how hominids split from other great apes, when bipedalism began, and how species like Homo habilis, ...

A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell. By Jan Ritch-Frel and Deborah ...

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the “sharp division between animal communication systems and human language” A ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

An “emotional and inspiring” archaeological find of Paleolithic tools has revealed a long-lost prehistoric passage that may ...

“Human evolution is a tree,” said Prof. Xijun Ni of Fudan University, who led the research along with Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London. “This tree had many branches, and there ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...

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 found. The ...