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

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

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.

And it’s truly black.” A hidden artery running through East Asia, the Kuro­shio has shaped life along its path for millennia.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

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Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

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

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Star contributors pick their top four in five different genres, from Emma Donoghue's disaster epic to S.A. Cosby's Southern ...