Of all the early human ancestor fossils ever found, “Lucy” may be the most famous among examples of Australopithecus, a group ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Learn more about human skull shape and how it has changed over millions of years.

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

His new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans.

Humans are social by design. Rising isolation from remote life clashes with our biology, weakening health and community in ...

Against the backdrop of the global AI boom, how should Chinese enterprises navigate in the new landscape? During WAIC Up! 2026, held on January 16th, Fu Sheng, Chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile and ...

The human chin is uniquely human, and the assumption has always been that it must have evolved for a specific purpose, perhaps to strengthen the jaw during chewing or speech. After all, chimpanzees ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...

Learn how the chin became an evolutionary byproduct that's unique to humans.

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...