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

As if their rights were not important, or – maybe worse – as if we unconsciously stopped believing that they had any. Unfortunately, neither the intervention nor struggle of Arab peoples themselves ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

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

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

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 ...

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

Complex geodynamic forces along the Eurasian and African faults are slowly tumbling the Iberian Peninsula toward the ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Opinion Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are trumped by accountancy's First Law of Finance: you must make money. iRobot, the ...

The biological human son of Stephen Lang's Quaritch and the adopted member of the Sully family gains the ability to breathe ...

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