New research into the genetics of Anopheles funestus (An. funestus), one of the most neglected but prolific malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in Africa, has revealed how this species is evolving in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

Although modern-day Turkey and the European coast are separated by water, the sea levels dropped more than 100 meters during ...

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

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

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

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

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

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

Humans have long viewed themselves as the pinnacle of evolution, labeling other species as “primitive” or using terms like ...