Opinion: "Let’s pause, regroup and ask if the mainstream media and brands, have our best interests at heart," says Sweeney ...

A newly identified Paleolithic culture in northern China reveals unique stone tools and early ochre processing dating back ...

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

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.” — Desiderata Come mothers and fathers ...

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

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – without other hunter-gatherer groups coming in from elsewhere.

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient. When reconstructed, the more ...

A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research provides the first scientific evidence that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had ...

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old child from Israel s Skhul Cave dating back 140,000 years. This discovery ...