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

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

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Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

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

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

“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 ...

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

Dr Sumedha Kotwal [email protected] Humanity has always looked upward and inward, seeking meaning, purpose, and ...

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Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...