Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

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A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the ...

Long-held notions on human origins are being challenged thanks to a new species of ape. (CREDIT: Ayla Sevim Erol)© The Brighter Side of News ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

The news: Even the most capable robots aren’t great at sensing human touch. But that may change, thanks to robots that can now sense and interpret touch without being covered in high-tech ...

Conventional thinking held that such an apparently raw and dynamic expanse of wilderness couldn't possibly have played any important role in the cultural evolution of human beings.