The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

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“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

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"Monster: The Ed Gein Story" appeared at No. 1 on Netflix's self-selected "Top 10" this weekend, just as two previous intstallments of the series from producer Ryan Murphy have done. And like the ...

Netflix dropped "Monster: The Ed Gein Story" on Oct. 3, the latest installment from producer Ryan Murphy that chronicles notorious killers through scripted drama. It's the second time Murphy has drawn ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

It took a while for humans to climb the food chain. By Andrew Paul Published Sep 23, 2025 12:11 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...