Is there really such a thing as human nature? The answer lies between two old extremes, and getting it right shapes how we face AI, authoritarianism, and climate.

Company reports more than 10,000 orders and launches an initiative to donate 100 humanoid robots in support of mental well-being programs ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of ...

A rare prehistoric cave, estimated to be around 300,000 years old, is a “time capsule,” sealed for hundreds of thousands of years. A research team from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Laughter is universal among humans. Researchers have found that our closest relatives, apes, also laugh, and do it with a ...

Baboons are one of the most widespread of Africa's primate groups. They range across sub-Saharan Africa and into the Arabian ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species ...

Medical breakthroughs, side effects of AI use, and histories of the natural world feature among this season’s science titles.

A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes.

In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants ...