What makes us human? What (if anything) sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed us back to our own animal ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

For the last 40,000 years, we (Homo sapiens) have lived alone - the last humans standing from a large and diverse group that, just 300,000 years ago, comprised at least nine species of walking, ...

Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has broken into a dizzying gallop. While AI feats grab headlines, they privilege technology in a make-believe vacuum, obscuring what really matters: people’s choices. The ...

Once Human allows you to redeem various codes to receive different types of rewards, but how exactly do you redeem them, and what codes are currently available to players? This page acts as a ...

Hawkodile is caught by the Action Police for bodyguarding without an Action License; Unikitty vows to help her friend contain his action urges and study for the test at the Department of Mayhem and ...

Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages. Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into cures for ...

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains, which ...

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. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...

This post is in response to Animal Minds and the Foible of Human Exceptionalism By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Imagine you are driving down the street, and from the left side of the road, a dog runs out in ...