I said previously that human self-conscious awareness arose as a consequence of two other unique human attributes, our capacity for language and our ability to continually transform the world by ...

Human beings are animals, evolved from ancestral great apes. We are part of nature and yet unique in many ways. It was once thought that humans were the only animals with culture: the learned rather ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered ...

Whale song is more similar to human language than previously thought, research has found. The study, led by the University of ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Apes may join Neanderthals and Paranthropus as half-forgotten creatures of the past. With the demise of our smartest animal relatives, the human mind would appear ever more special on this planet. And ...

When you chat with ChatGPT, it often feels like you’re talking to someone polite, engaged and responsive. It nods in all the right places, mirrors your wording and seems eager to keep the exchange ...