A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a ...

Dan M. Mrejeru presents an exploration of how environmental forces and cognitive shifts shaped the modern human mind ...

The modern educational experience is a clear example of how mismatched today's world is from ancestral conditions.

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...

These three connected stories about the whole of human history can’t quite sustain the necessary emotional heft.

As we move into the next era of digital ecosystems, the transition from automation to autonomy requires a complete ...

The curious minds at What If investigate what humans of the future might really be like, exploring evolution, technology, and biology. American manufacturer’s hidden tag calling president "idiot" ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

“Evolve: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Technologies to Enable Superhuman Capabilities” by Sharon Daniels is released with Forbes Books In “Evolve,” technology leader and ...