Homo sapiens has existed for at least 300,000 years, but its exact origin is still unknown. Some theories say that it evolved in East Africa about 50,000 years ago and expanded southwards, but now a ...

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

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

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

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

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 ...

On pain, evolution, and bipedal arrogance—linking childbirth, climate change and classed bodies. Is it time to rethink ...

“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 ...

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

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.

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