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Humans are animals. This statement, although true, is unsettling for many people. Such discomfort reveals a deep ambivalence about how we see ourselves — a part of nature, yet somehow different from ...

A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

New research from the University of Lincoln, UK, is challenging a common assumption about the evolutionary origins of human violence, suggesting that everyday aggression does not inevitably lead to ...

Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been occupying these caves in the Balkans at a time when other ...

My takeaway from the opening of “New Humans: Memories of the Future” is that the project of “contemporary art” may be ending. Sorry, that’s a big statement ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...

The bright colors of butterfly wings, the sweet aromas of flowers, and the euphonious melodies of songbirds all evolved as signals that help individuals propagate, yet humans also find these very same ...

It’s a big, serious, adult show worth debating and even fighting over — just the way our critic likes it. Shigeko Kubota’s “Jogging Lady,” 1993, in “New Humans.” The artist combined moving image and ...

Plants and animals have evolved all sorts of ways to make themselves more appealing to potential mates—including colorful feet, flamboyant feathers, complex mating dances and sexual deception. Many ...

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas. Juan-Luis ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...