While they hold medical promise, their potential to enhance abilities raises concerns about privacy, control, and the very essence of being human. As BCs advance, will they become indispensable, ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 150,000-year-old shelter in Tajikistan, offering new insights into human evolution.

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating ...

An ASU evolutionary anthropologist offers a groundbreaking theory on why humans have come to dominate the world over other ...

The Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries transformed how we lived and worked, forever altering society with ...

A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but in its "open-endedness." ...

Over 100 perforated pebbles from a site near the Sea of Galilee showcase an early instance of the tech that reshaped humanity ...

Genome scans have provided the first steps in evaluating without bias the relative contribution of gene–culture co-evolution to human adaptation. A large number of the genes that have been ...