Wikipedia had to fight to establish its legitimacy—and now it faces a new existential threat posed by generative AI ...

Evolution unfolds in a world that is constantly changing, but not all kinds of change shape populations in the same way. Using a large-scale computer model, researchers replayed evolution across many ...

The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia’s Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years ...

Map showing potential migration routes of the human ancestor, Homo erectus, in Africa, Europe and Asia during the early Pleistocene. Key fossils of Homo erectus and the earlier Homo habilis species ...