Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

The History of Almost Everything By Chip Colwell, Translated by Kim Byung-hwa, Buki, 456 pages, 27,000 Korean won 300,000 ...

Humans take nearly 18 to 25 years to reach full maturity, far longer than most mammals. This slow human growth is driven by brain evolution, higher cognitive demand, and long childhood learning. Human ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building to vestigial anatomy.

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of ...

Human-AI interactions can resemble human-human social interactions, with computers, and especially AI-driven technologies, becoming increasingly important social actors. It is in these interactions ...

A study of 140 laughter sequences found the same rhythmic timing pattern in humans, chimps, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans.

It’s no secret that life in the 21st century moves at a rapid pace. Human inventions such as the Internet, mobile phones and fiber optic cable have increased the speed of communication, making it ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...