Many scientists point to cultural evolution, the process by which knowledge, customs and technology spread over time. But ...

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Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, detailed how the line between humans and AI could blur dramatically, even potentially allowing ...

Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows ...

A 150,000-year-old site in Côte d'Ivoire nearly doubles previous estimates of how long ago humans first lived in rainforests.

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When people disappeared from the landscape, as they did during the pandemic, wild animals changed how they used space and ...