Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about human evolution. Are humans still ...

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We aren’t the only humans to have called Earth ‘home’; before us there were dozens of human species and like us they ...

The basics of evolution are pretty straightforward to grasp: organisms better equipped to survive and reproduce tend to have ...

Hope Korean film opened in approximately 1,560 US theaters on September 9, making it the widest simultaneous US launch for a ...

Scientists have long wondered how these bizarre creatures endured for years without food—now they’ve found out why ...

Every person alive carries between 0.5% and 1% of their genome from a hominin that has no name, no fossils, and no sequenced ...

Na Hong-jin, director of the new alien invasion epic Hope, chats with us about what it took to pull off his dazzling new film ...

More than 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China may reveal a surprising link between this ancient human species, Denisovans, and some modern people. Scientists found protein mutations ...

A new philosophical paper argues that consciousness may not be exclusive to life as we know it. According to Eric ...

English author H. G. Wells about an attempted invasion of Earth by beings from the planet Mars with much greater intelligence and more advanced weapons than humans. The Martians intend to eliminate ...

With a universe that’s crawling with extraterrestrial villains, these DC heroes are indispensable to keep the Earth and the ...