A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants that evolution has selected for or against in recent history

BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday

Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural world.

Learn more about malarial infections from Plasmodium falciparum, and their influence on human movement and interaction around 74,000 to 5,000 years ago.

The results show how robots are starting to challenge human sporting capabilities after demonstrating superiority in cognitive and screen-based pursuits.

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change comes with cost.

A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' growth patterns differed from those of modern humans.

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Archaeologists in Israel unearthed prehistoric hand axes that Homo erectus crafted from stones including fossils and crystals, perhaps a sign that they wanted to connect with the cosmos

Together, these “dials” and “hands” appear to influence human language development, according to the findings. “It’s the collective effect of variation across all these different sites that seems to be the major explainer of individual differences in language,” Michaelson says. “There’s no single gene for language.”