It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

Of course, by our own standards, modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the smartest species ... Adelaide argued in 2013 that humans cannot claim intellectual superiority over other species because ...

Some 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens split off from a long line ... it seems that humans only reached an intellectual apex ...

Prof Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, explains why some old assumptions about the intellectual capabilities ... as the separate species Homo sapiens), mixed with them, so that ...

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 ...

A phenome-wide association study of methylated GC-rich repeats identifies a GCC repeat expansion in AFF3 associated with intellectual disability. Nature Genetics, 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01917-1 ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be deposed as part of a lawsuit brought by authors including comedian Sarah Silverman accusing the company of copyright infringement to train its artificial ...

Kentuckians last year challenged hundreds of library books. These challenges were directed mostly toward books with LGBTQ+ ...

Recognizing this limitation and the potential fallibility of even our most deeply held beliefs is core to the concept of intellectual humility. “It helps you overcome this very categorical ...

This phenomenon, directly related to the severity of the environment, becomes more significant when analyzed in the context of the extinction of the Neanderthals around 36,000 years ago and the ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) are Homo sapiens' closest relatives ... argued in 2013 that humans cannot claim intellectual superiority over other species because ...