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Exposed in 1953, the Piltdown Man forgery misled scientists for four decades. Charles Dawson’s fake fossils combined a medieval human skull, an orangutan jaw, and chimpanzee teeth stained to look ...

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Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

Ray Kurzweil, computer scientist, inventor and futurist, sees A.I. as the next step in human evolution. Merging with ...

As interdependencies between humans and AI grow, the two could come to function not merely as interacting agents, but as an integrated evolutionary individual subject to selection at the collective ...

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and ...

From incredible discoveries about the natural world to archaeological finds and new learnings about our solar system, here ...

When speakers of different languages meet, their words, sounds and even grammatical structures mingle in surprising ways.

Deepak Chopra explains how artificial intelligence should be viewed as "augmented intelligence" that expands human awareness rather than threatens it.

The little brown lizards in New Orleans are thriving with blood levels of lead that Tulane scientists say should be lethal, ...

A new study demonstrates that some highly gifted dogs can categorize objects not just by appearance, but by how they are used ...