Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

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

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

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

A robotic hand developed at EPFL surpasses the limits of human dexterity with a dual-thumbed, reversible-palm design that can ...

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than 2 million years ago in northern Kenya. The collection of fossil bones has ...

Abstract: Human locomotion adapts to different conditions, resulting in changes in gait parameters like speed, stride time, and length. Bionic limbs strive to mimic natural walking patterns, with ...

Abstract: Achieving natural, robust, and energy-efficient locomotion remains a central challenge for humanoid control. While imitation learning enables robots to reproduce human-like behaviors, ...

The increasing use of virtual reality (VR) technologies in behavioral research raises a critical question: to what extent do behaviors in VR mirror those in the real world? VR offers strong ...