Examining the nature and origin of human intelligence and the intersection with machine intelligence in the past, present and ...

The hard-to-classify Chinese remains include 21 fossils found in the 1970s at the Xujiayao (Houjiayao) site located on the ...

Ancient Chinese fossils may belong to a new human species, Homo juluensis, with large brain sizes, challenging traditional ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, an extraordinary chapter in the story of humanity unfolded. Two distinct branches of the human family tree—modern humans and Neanderthals—crossed paths in a meeting ...

New research shows Australopithecus, an early human ancestor, likely consumed little to no meat, challenging previous ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

She wants to do this same kind of testing on other past human relatives, to move up the evolutionary chain. This work is an ...

would be an important advance for human health,” Notredame pointed out. The potential applications of the work go beyond cancer. Using the approach to create more accurate evolutionary trees ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, ...

"Yet, as imperfect as it may be, the kinase evolutionary tree is widely used to understand how it interacts with other drugs. Improving this tree, or improving trees of other important protein ...

When the researchers looked at the ancient DNA extracted from the human remains from these neighbouring sites ... six-generation-long pedigrees at each site,” says Zuzana Hofmanová from the Max Planck ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...