For decades, much of what the world knew about human genetics was built from datasets that scarcely reflected the diversity ...

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of humans. Based on the lower-bound generation interval of 24.6 years, there have ...

Around 74,000 years ago, Earth experienced one of the most devastating volcanic events in its recent history. The Toba supereruption, centered in what is now Indonesia, blasted 672 cubic miles of ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every corner of the world, and can thrive in deserts, tropical rainforests and even ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the Moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems ...

Artificial intelligence is getting better at mimicking human language, solving problems, and even passing exams. But according to new research, it still can't replicate one of the most fundamental ...

The human lie isn’t a flaw so much as a feature, one that evolution spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting.

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans made it through. Reading time 5 minutes If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, ...

For the first time since the Apollo era, humans are preparing not just to visit the Moon, but to live and work there for weeks, months – and eventually years. But what would it really be like to spend ...

Two chimpanzees meeting with each other apparently have a discussion using hand gestures, one of the human-like characteristics of other mammals. (Getty Images) Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, ...

For both dietary and environmental reasons, we’re rethinking our consumption of meat. But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...