Goal-directed attention relies on forming internal templates of key information relevant for guiding behavior, particularly when preparing for upcoming sensory inputs. However, evidence on how these ...

A cranial capacity of approximately 1,700 milliliters – significantly larger than both their predecessors and many modern humans. To put this in perspective, the average modern human brain size is ...

Scientists discover new species of human ancestors, Homo juluensis. Credit: Adam Fagen, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A team of researchers has identified a new human species that vanished approximately 200,000 ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes mysterious groups like the Denisovans—ancient human relatives whose histories ...

Possibly a direct ancestor of Homo sapiens, Homo erectus was the first human species to spread beyond Africa. The fossil site was a resource-rich lakeshore near the mouth of a river. "The fact ...

Some 1.5 million years ago, two ancient species crossed paths on a lake shore in Kenya. Their footprints in the mud were frozen in time and lay undiscovered until 2021.

Today, Lucy is an important touchstone in human evolution because she lived 3.2 million years ago, evolutionarily halfway between our ape ancestors and us. But Lucy is just one of many famous ...

One of the many mysteries left hanging in the fog of opaque disclosure surrounding the corporate governance implosion at Mineral Resources is the role played by internal audit, the so-called third ...

Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist ...