A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Explores a six-level autonomy taxonomy for agentic AI, governance, and risk-aligned controls to safely deploy autonomous ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

Abstract: An open problem in autonomous driving research is modeling human driving behavior, which is needed for the planning component of the autonomy stack, safety validation through traffic ...

A newly-described partial skeleton from the Koobi Fora Formation in northern Kenya is giving paleoanthropologists their most complete picture yet of Homo habilis — one of the earliest members of the ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. The metaverse is an emerging technological shift that enhances collaboration, telepresence and decision-making and can revolutionise ...

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 ...

Homo habilis has long been considered the earliest member of the human genus, known for its association with early stone tools. This episode explores the fossil evidence from East Africa, the debate ...