2026 is highlighted as the year of the singularity with Elon Musk warning of underestimated impacts; conversations with him ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

The way Sahaleanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

Bones From 773,000 Years Ago Capture Human Evolution at a Crossroads In A Nutshell Ancient African fossils dated to around ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

Progress towards full AI-driven coding automation continues, but in steps rather than leaps, giving organizations time to ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

A new analysis of these primordial bones offers evidence that Sahelanthropus was our first known ancestor to regularly walk on two feet, a sign that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia’s Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years ...

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