The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Research suggests that expressing gratitude can benefit the body in several ways. In the brain, it can lower levels of the ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

"The Giant Leap," by astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, is an optimistic account of our widening journey into the cosmos.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...