Neanderthals were not solitary brutes — they lived socially complex lives that included long-term relationships and family ...

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

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

The Out of Africa theory describes how early human species evolved in Africa before migrating across Eurasia and beyond. This ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

“Focus on twavel, welationships and twacking down dat waskily wabbit.” – Elmer Fudd reading his horoscope. I have decided to bone up on how the study of planetary cycles guide us towards a more ...

Some experts think “xenobot” cells that reorganize themselves after death signify a form of consciousness—while others ...

Dr Sumedha Kotwal [email protected] Humanity has always looked upward and inward, seeking meaning, purpose, and ...

We, humans, treat animals like animals, so why should we be surprised when we treat humans like animals? If only we could bring ourselves to like animals.

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

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

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...