This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Fossils found in Georgia challenge existing theories of human origins, suggesting two early human species coexisted at the Dmanisi site.

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

The recently opened HistoryMiami exhibit, “Belonging in Transit,” highlights the Redland Market Village in Homestead as a ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

The knowledge of how to make fire rather than relying on the exploitation of naturally occurring fire marked a key ...

Discover when globalization began, from ancient trade routes to modern economic policies, and understand its impact on global trade and cultural exchange.

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Scientists reconstructed the fossil of a skull found in Ethiopia, dating back 1.5 million years, and were stunned by what they learned. Digital reconstruction is an area of technology that allows ...

A map of Sunda, Sahul and the Western Pacific, with arrows showing potential north and south migration routes. Credit: Helen Farr and Erich Fisher When the first modern humans set their eyes on what ...