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

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

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped ...

December might be the last month of the year, but it doesn't mean you can't read something that genuinely changes the way you ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

“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 ...

The controlled use of fire was a landmark event for the human evolutionary lineage, not only for cooking and providing ...

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