If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Already, it is teaching us how little we know. It may finally explain mysteries such as why humans have a chin – and what we might evolve into next.

Scientists discover a “runaway bulldozer” in ant DNA that silences smell genes, keeping chemical communication - and colony ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

From ancient apes to modern humans, this video breaks down the entire evolutionary timeline. Learn how hominids split from other great apes, when bipedalism began, and how species like Homo habilis, ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

FILE PHOTO: No 3 skull of Yunxian Man is found in an excavation site known as Xuetangliangzi in Yunyang district, Shiyan city, Central China’s Hubei province. [Xinhua via China Daily/Asia News Network ...

The findings are based on a reconstruction of a crushed skull discovered in China in 1990, and have the potential to resolve the longstanding “Muddle in the Middle” of human evolution, researchers ...