Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQBy Richard DoolingHarmony, 272 pages, $25You know the Evolution of Man chart? The drawing in biology textbooks illustrating our progress from knuckle-drag… ...

This article was originally published with the title “ What Will Become of Homo Sapiens? ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 300 No. 1 (January 2009), p. 68 doi:10.1038 ...

Our species emerged as a result of a mind-bending number of random events and mutations, but it may also have been inevitable that humans, or something like us, would walk the Earth.

Researchers have found that an extinct human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls 100,000 years before humans, challenging previous assumptions about human evolution.

Evolution is an ongoing phenomenon in human populations around the world, and has even resulted in noticeable changes within our species over the last few millennia, scientists told Newsweek in an ...

A new species of ancient human dubbed Homo longi, or "Dragon Man," could potentially change the way we understand human evolution, scientists said Friday. Researchers said in their findings ...