This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025.

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Where would we be without knowledge? Everything from the building of spaceships to the development of new therapies has come about through the creation, sharing, and validation of knowledge. It is ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Creativity takes many forms, yet as the technological revolution pushes forward, many fear the impact and subsequent effect of technology on human creativity. Over the last two decades, there have ...

Throughout most of human history, evolution progressed slowly. Small genetic changes took thousands of years to permeate populations. Natural selection was intentional, reactive, and gradual. However, ...