Humans Developed Language Capabilities 135,000 Yrs Ago, Researchers Stunned to Find Similarities in 7,000 Languages It is ...

Long before the rise of the Homo sapiens civilization, our ancestors walked the valleys of East Africa over a million years ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Analysis - Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope captured the clearest image of the universe just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, revealing ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...