A futurist has claimed that there are three phases of human evolution, and our species is currently in the second phase. Jeffrey Charles Hardy, who founded the non-profit Care for Peace, developed a ...

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 ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

The majority of our DNA forms what is known as 'dark matter' – mysterious genetic sequences that has played a key role in the evolution of our species (Credit: Getty Images) Twenty years ago, an ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

It's the diagram of evolution we're all familiar with – starting with an ape figure which slowly turns into an upright human. But the famous depiction of the history of man should be 'expunged from ...