Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

The six-part series Animals, They’re Just Like Us! lets you peek inside the lives of penguins, giraffes and chimps that behave a whole lot like humans ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

A small minority that produces this technology and collects all human data treats humanity as "experimental subjects." In ...

It will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but [...] we are not the pinnacle of creation,” he says.

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.