Yuval Noah Harari cautions that AI is transforming from a mere tool to an autonomous agent capable of making independent ...

The study of mitochondrial DNA has enabled scientists to trace a family tree that connects all of humanity to a single female ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

Throughout the history of Homo sapiens we see violence brutally inflicted by the powerful as against the powerless. History also exposes the greed and dominating nature of humans that shows no ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Today, humans speak more than 7,000 languages. At least 135,000 years ago, our unique ability for language emerged. Language ...

In the streets of Anyama, children play and braziers smoke on corners. There is little to show that the ground of this ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Analysis - Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils ...