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Subhuman

Tags: wtf, savage, random5727 points, 240 comments.

These Rare Mutations Are Simply Cool

Humans have no natural predator, and our gene pool has suffered greatly for it

Tags: funny, wtf, random, hilarious, unexpected1262 points, 196 comments.

Why Don't We Ever See The Ghosts Of Cavemen, Neanderthals & Other Early Hominids?

Why do we only ever see the ghosts of modern humans, never cavemen, neanderthals or any other early hominids. Is there something special about homo sapiens?

Humans in The Andes Have Evolved a Strange Digestive Superpower

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There’s Beauty In Uniqueness

Animals Can Be Weird, Man

Harvard Geneticist Proposes Neanderthals Are Descended from Humans   

Humans and Neanderthals are so similar that Neanderthals provide no evidence we are closely related to some type of primitive non-human. Source

Bizarre But Interesting Habits Abroad

The line between Human and Alien isn’t what you think

Rumors have been intensifying in recent months. A former OpenAI executive spoke about “portals” and “summoning aliens,” while the work and mysterious death of young scientist Amy E...

So You Think You’re Special, Do Ya?

We Need Another Humanity Dose!

Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist Michael Marshall details a surprising new hypothesis that...

Even MORE Things We Can’t Explain

Ancient Landscape Reveals Bones of Humans Who Lived 100,000 Years Ago

Their remains survived the ravages of millennia. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

Daily Evening Randomness

Wild Human Body Facts That Are Pretty Much Happening to You Right Now

New Scientist recommends a smart new account of human exceptionalism

Why did humans decide they weren't like other animals, or animals at all? Has this exceptionalism twisted us out of shape? Michael Bond's book Animate offers a page-turning account...

Crazy Mythical Creatures: They Had Too Much Time Back Then

The Time Humans Almost Went Completely Extinct

We Outlasted Neanderthals Thanks to One Key Difference, Study Suggests

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Why Did the Neanderthals Disappear? Scientists Reveal Humans Had a Hidden Advantage

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes. A new modeling study suggests that stronger links betwee...

A Modern History of Monsters

Michael Egan Somewhere, I’ve forgotten where, I remember César Aira writing that “monsters manage to escape from the net that brings humans to the surface.” It’s a compelling image...

Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference

Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates often have strong biases, and chimpanzees, gorillas, a...