A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The million-year-old specimen, named Yunxian 2, may push the emergence of Homo sapiens back ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched ...

New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the first large-brained humans. That's because it dated back about a million ...

It's a long-held belief that one of our earliest ancestors, Homo habilis, was the first of our genus to transition from prey to predator. Archaeological evidence suggests that they were among the ...

Unlike other technologies, fibre optics transmit information through pulses of light based on two physical phenomena: ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

Not literally, of course. But similarly to an ant colony, two scientists say our collective culture—not genetics—has become the driving force of our evolution.

This shift isn’t just about faster problem-solving; it’s changing what it means to be human. Culture is inherently collective ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...