Now the Guardian’s Top 50 countdowns, as voted for by the whole film team, have announced their No 1s, here are our chief critic’s personal choices – in no particular order ...

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in ...

Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront ...

It's a story that almost any Christian would be instantly familiar with. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were the first man and woman on Earth. Said to be made out of dust and to have lived in ...

The big question is, will the world’s billionaires who are now Homo sapiens gain enough human empathy to save the world from ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

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A glimpse into Daniel Ek’s favourite reads shaped by strategy, clarity and creative discipline, guiding anyone seeking ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New ...

She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson ...

Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...