Tech is evolving too fast for human biology. Mental health trends show we're struggling. To survive, we must speed up adaptation—culturally, mentally, and structurally.

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks talks to The Conversation Weekly about AI’s potential to influence our evolution.

A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology posits how these new technologies might affect human evolution. In "How Might Artificial Intelligence Influence Human Evolution?" ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, challenging our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. The Quina method of ...

The discovery of bone implements that are the oldest ever found, by far, casts light on human evolution. It shows that our hominin ancestors were able to think about and make this technology a lot ...

Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor.

The study, published in Nature, provides a deeper understanding of human and ape evolution, highlighting key findings ... includes text that has been generated with the assistance of AI. Technology ...