For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according to a new study. In the past, scientists believed that hominin evolution was largely driven by changes in climate. But now, ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

Bill Edwards is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, veteran of the Iraq War, and Executive Vice President of Security Services for PMY Group. The continued evolution of small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS), ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...

Israeli historian and celebrated author Yuval Noah Harari, best known for his groundbreaking book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, has issued a stark warning about artificial intelligence (AI).