Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These ...

Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful ...

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

Life insurance can protect your loved ones when you're gone by replacing lost income, paying off debts or leaving a financial legacy. There's a lot to consider, though, with different providers ...

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But it's never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree. Christopher Bae ... brain that's bigger than that of our species, ...