Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Great apes and humans all laugh with a steady, even rhythm, and a new study finds it has barely changed in 15 million years.

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

Summary: Laughter is a universal human trait shared by all living great apes, including chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. However, the exact evolutionary trajectory of laughter, and how ...

In 1866, the topic became so controversial that the Société de Linguistique de Paris banned discussions about language origins altogether.

A prehistoric human known as Homo erectus was the first of our forerunners to leave Africa, crossing continents and ultimately roaming the planet for almost 2 million years. But with scarce genetic ...

Abstract: Neural architecture search (NAS) has made remarkable progress in various field tasks and is also used in fields like cognitive diagnosis (CD) in intelligent education. Due to the ...

In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley called Wadi Moghra. Scientists had previously found ancient monkey remains ...

Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky? This intuition that ties certain sounds to shapes is oddly reliable all over the world. For at least a century scientists have considered this ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...