Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...
Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...
A new study suggests humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary shifts: walking on two legs ...
No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...
A few years ago, Lee Berger almost died when squeezing into a cave system in the so-called Cradle of Humankind.
A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...
Researchers have found that introducing human-made data into AI training can help to prevent AI model collapse.
When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...
A new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution examining human populations in Sri Lankan tropical rainforests shows ...
A new analysis of crystals that formed inside one of the bones shows that the site dates back to an ice age 146,000 years ago ...
For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...
Infrastructure is only half the battle. To unlock true enterprise value, we must cross the next threshold: moving beyond data ...