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Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI ...

We’re full of evolutionary leftovers Evolution can be a slow process ... These leftovers, or vestigial traits, are found in human beings too. The appendix is thought to have been involved ...

Evolution could alter or even eliminate some of the human traits we cherish most, changing forever what it means to be human. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This year was another full of discoveries in human evolution that help us understand our origins and our closest evolutionary cousins, both living and extinct. With stories of our living ape relatives ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

a new study of human brain evolution has found. The study, published today (Tuesday, 26 November) in the journal PNAS, overturns long-standing ideas about human brain evolution. Scientists from ...