'Bizarre' Finding Changes the Way We Think About Human Evolution

Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according to a new study. In the past, scientists believed that hominin evolution was largely driven by changes in climate. But now, ... Read More

How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution

When I asked Harbisson how the doctor had attached the device, he cheerfully parted the hair at the back of his head to show me the antenna’s point of entry. The pinkish flesh was pressed down ... Read More

Human evolution

Ancient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago. Severe cold a million years ago forced our ancestors from the continent, but they adapted ... Read More

Humans pass more viruses to other animals than we catch from them

For the new paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution ... humans, or even evolve new adaptations before it winds up infecting humans again. "Understanding how and why viruses evolve to jump ... Read More

News tagged with modern humans

Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins—and produced a "bizarre" evolutionary pattern ... Why did humans take over the world while our closest relatives ... Read More

Neanderthals and humans may belong to the same species, say scientists. It could rewrite the history of our evolution.

The evidence also suggests that human ancestors and Neanderthals likely had children together when they cohabitated about 50,000 years ago. This news ... that point," Laura Buck, an evolutionary ... Read More

Eight surprising facts about human evolution

He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ... Read More

Is the Internet the Enemy of Progress?

But it’s 29 years old, written when the true internet era was still just a gleam in Al Gore’s eye. And as prophecies go, it’s pretty impressive — up there with Malcolm’s rather more famous prediction ... Read More

Mapping Out How Viruses Jump Between Species

pathogens that somehow make the jump from an animal host to a human one. Think COVID 19 or avian influenza, a.k.a. Bird flu, which sometimes crosses the species divide. But a new analysis published in ... Read More

Evolution news

Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins—and produced a "bizarre" evolutionary pattern ... From microbes in the human gut to symbiotic algae in coral ... Read More

Android vs. iPhone: 15 Years of Innovation Through Rivalry

Android began as its own company (Android Inc.) back in 2003, and it wasn't acquired by Google until 2005. Meanwhile, Apple already had success with mobile products in the form of the iPod, the iPhone ... Read More

Riding the baddest bulls made him a legend. Then one broke his neck.

Arctic Assassin came out of the chute and wrenched right, then left. Mauney was okay for the first couple of bucks. But then he sat down hard and lurched sharply forward. The bull’s rising hips caught ... Read More