In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

What the findings do suggest, however, is that “the proto-domestication hypothesis cannot be rejected on the basis of time ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that his AI startup is racing to secure the computing power needed to meet demand for its generative AI chatbot Claude. “The surge in demand ...

Emo, short for "emotional hardcore," emerged in the mid-1980s. It evolved into a cornucopia of styles, from indie rock to pop-punk. Pioneers like Rites of Spring and Embrace sowed the seeds, while ...

However, the researchers also found that countries where poultry are vaccinated against H5 bird flu—specifically China—saw a faster rate of viral evolution compared to those where poultry is ...

AI Action Summit calls for human-centric approach; sets priorities for "ethical, accessible, sustainable" Artificial Intelligence ...

In our modern world, accessing food and avoiding disease is a lot easier than it was throughout much of human history. The researchers describe in the paper how they analyzed World Health ...