Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

"Immediately after the two ancestral populations split, we see a severe bottleneck in one of them—suggesting it shrank to a ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Innatera builds neuromorphic chips. They are proving extremely efficient for applications in smart doorbells and more, but ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...