Putting together the puzzle of human evolution sometimes comes down to about 32 pieces–our teeth. Several fossil teeth dating ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we need to ensure that it doesn’t kill us off.

While strategies, systems, and technology are undeniably crucial, it is ultimately human relationships that determine the ...

Therefore, it may not have been the evolutionary increase in brain size that led to the slowdown in human development, but the extension of childhood and the three-generation structure that favored ...

it’s surprising that we have been scientifically studying our evolution for only 200 years. But in that short time, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of human ancestors in Europe ...

This is the sixth and final in a series by Sundar Sarukkai, to be included in his forthcoming book ‘Another Story of ...

Imagine a race where the competitors are not human athletes but futuristic entities: AI-powered robots, enhanced humans with ...

In romantic movies, kissing often symbolizes love, yet this simple act of pressing lips together has peculiar origins.

Collectively, emerging technologies are creating an unstable world, where we don’t clearly understand what national security ...

CEO Dario Amodei has repeatedly revealed his ambition to use Claude to support the US government and its interests in ...

When forward head posture is maintained for extended periods, certain tissues shorten while others elongate. Over time, the ...