Because we needed to keep a running tally of friends and foes to navigate thorny hierarchies and shifting alliances, we had to have brains that were up to the task (which is why this theory is also ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Researchers at almost 100 institutions supported the creation of the Max Planck Institute-funded EVApeCognition Dataset – with hopes high that the resource could enhance scientific understanding of ...

A newborn baby cannot walk, feed itself or even lift its head. Compared with most animals, human babies are remarkably helpless. Yet this dependence is not a weakness; it is an evolutionary advantage.