An analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old vertebra from a human relative living in what is now Israel suggests that ancient ...

The researchers who developed the system, called Centaur, fine-tuned a large language model (LLM) using a massive set of data ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

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

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Is the internet still human? Discover how AI and bots are reshaping online content and the unsettling rise of the Dead ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Nearly a decade earlier, Answers in Genesis opened a Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg, Kentucky, where exhibits similarly ...

New research challenges the long-standing belief that northern Africa underwent a dry period crucial to human evolution.

“You could see this as kind of a natural experiment in human evolution,” says Gerrit van den Bergh of the University of Wollongong, an expert on H. floresiensis.