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Marcus Mariota will be the guest picker for Saturday’s ESPN “College GameDay” show, the network announced in a social media post Thursday. Saturday... On this week’s episode, Jack and Owen dive into ...
The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...
Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...
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In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...