This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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Creativity takes many forms, yet as the technological revolution pushes forward, many fear the impact and subsequent effect of technology on human creativity. Over the last two decades, there have ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Throughout most of human history, evolution progressed slowly. Small genetic changes took thousands of years to permeate populations. Natural selection was intentional, reactive, and gradual. However, ...