This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

Traditional SoD was built for a world that no longer exists. The new SoD must be dynamic, identity-anchored, machine-aware ...

While generative AI brought creativity to machines, agentic AI is bringing initiative. Most organizations still treat AI as automation or support tools, framing it as something “we use,” rather than ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

Many of America’s top military commanders predict that mastering teaming between humans and increasingly capable AI algorithms and autonomous machines will provide an essential advantage to the ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Evolution naturally produces the fittest living things for a given environment, but labs can speed up that process to uncover how cells respond to specific pressures. These directed evolution ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...