The future lies not in identifying people but in ensuring they are human. The AI age necessitates a new paradigm for proof of ...

A provocative new book delves into the way humans – and elephants – evolved to manage risk. We might do better to think more like elephants ...

Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals but aren't found in reptiles, birds or amphibians Sarah Kuta Scientists ...

The predictions are generally grim, pitting the fate of all humans against a unitary (or unified) AI opponent. What if the AI future doesn’t stretch to these sci-fi dystopias? For an evolutionary ...

Presenting a series of articles on the human species, with special reference to its origins. It is now clear that tools antedate man, and that their use by prehuman primates gave rise to Homo sapiens ...

Evolution of human traitsIcons depict cultural and biological ... BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics Institute), estimated in a 2014 article that there are roughly 10,000 genetic variants likely ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

The moment when the first members of the extended human family called hominins adapted to life in desert or tropical forests ...

Behavioural experiments in shell-dwelling cichlid fish reveal evolutionary adaptations in parents and offspring that control the timing of emergence from the nest. Human genetic diversity and ...

For decades, the narrative of early humans evolution has been closely tied to the rise of meat consumption, thought to have ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

Evolutionary history of human TFs The function and genomic organization ... the transcriptional regulatory networks. This Analysis article has presented a census of sequence-specific DNA-binding ...