Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Adult animation has evolved from niche late-night TV to a global storytelling powerhouse, tackling themes once thought impossible for the medium. From the satirical bite of South Park to the emotional ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, behaviour and other traits. The biggest ever study of ancient human DNA shows ...

Deep in the hills of central Israel, a new discovery is rewriting the history of human cooperation. For decades, scientists have debated the nature of the relationship between Neanderthals and early ...

Abstract: Sparsely single-point human parsing aims at segmenting the human body into fine-grained categories via weak point-level labels (e.g., point-level, scribble-level, or image-level, etc). The ...

Lucy left audiences questioning what happens when the human brain reaches its full potential. Now, a possible sequel raises even bigger questions about evolution and consciousness. Scarlett ...

A drop in the number of huge animals 200,000 years ago may have forced ancient humans to abandon heavy-duty stone tools in favour of lightweight toolkits to hunt smaller animals. That’s according to a ...