The neurologist on the science of subjectivity, and the irony of sophisticated tech that makes simple jobs harder.

Later, in the 1960s, South African archaeologist Glynn Isaac expanded research through further excavations and geological ...

The Denisovans provided the genetic difference for Asian and Australid populations, two of the four “root races” from which ...

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

Raymond Dart, who in 1924 discovered the first fossil of a human ancestor in Africa, popularized the ... our direct ancestor, Homo erectus, took in enough extra energy at each meal to help fuel ...

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus, one of our oldest ...

FROM THE AIR, endless rows of palm trees swallowed the topography as we flew over Bintan Island in the South China Sea. On the ground, an occasional fallen palm tree and piles of red palm fruit ...

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A million years ago, when everything we encountered was shaped solely by forces of nature, something that began as a spark of ...

R1, which led to Nvidia losing nearly $600 billion in a day. This breakthrough highlighted AI's potential, reminiscent of ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

Instead, it addressed South Africa, freezing aid to the country among other measures over its government’s alleged “egregious actions.” “We will not be bullied,” South Africa’s ...