Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the "natural evolutionary outcome" for our planet and likely others, according ...

Understanding natural history presents a profound challenge. It involves trying to grasp the undocumented progress of countless millennia, such as the evolutionary journey of various species. One ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The ...

“They followed humans, Homo sapiens, across the continents and are in every single ... but rat czar Corradi said early results are encouraging. The city has signed people up for what it calls an elite ...

For years, researchers believed that the world's oldest ochre mine, Ngwenya in Eswatini, was the only source of ochre pigment for early human communities ... the University of Bergen's Centre for ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans (Homo sapiens) migrating out of Africa ... rise to current populations outside Africa. This early-branching population has no descendants today.

Image:Le Moustier’s 1920s art reconstruction of Neanderthals. Credit: Public domain Scientists have uncovered how blood groups helped early humans (Homo sapiens) in their survival and expansion across ...