Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ...

But genetic analyses over the past two decades have revealed traces of several human ghost lineages in the ancestry of people today and in the ancient DNA recovered from fossils. These human ghost ...

A new analysis argues that this daily work of processing and cooking food helped reshape human bodies and social life. It ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

Film Theory tries to stitch every DreamWorks animated film into one timeline—using a “canon tier” system to decide what evidence counts most. The twist is cosmic: a higher power and a moon entity ...

AI’s rise feels faster and deeper than past tech shifts—reshaping not just what we build, but how we build, learn, and evolve ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...