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Led by paleoanthropologist Professor Chris Stringer from London’s Natural History Museum, the team originally believed the skull to be an earlier ancestor of humanity, named Homo erectus, because it ...

The genomes of thousands of mosquitoes reveal how the slave trade enabled the spread of the species that transmits dengue and ...

Elon Musk believes the collapsing birth rate is humanity's biggest danger. But antinatalists argue having kids is little more than a procreational Ponzi scheme, and the risks are real.

Best friends Evie and Noa have watched films together since they first met five years ago. But are they only there for the love of movies?

It can seem of late that the experiment in evolution we call Homo sapiens has gone horribly wrong, notwithstanding my ability to touch type letters that make words that make sentences, and perform all ...

The sci-fi genre has permeated comic books for decades, but these ten books are the ultimate example of the genre in the ...

Sunset Beach (aptly named) on the western end of the peninsula is the prime viewing spot, where people gather nightly in a sort of informal sunset appreciation society. There’s something democratizing ...

Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced in August in the journal Nature, began with a Valentine’s Day trek seven ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient.