The skull evolved for protection against blunt force. Modern acceleration and rotational forces expose the brain to new ...

Degenerate Art,” an exhibition at the Musée Picasso in Paris on the Nazis’ persecution of modern artists, is about culture ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

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.

Learn about the new proposal for the origins of modern humans, suggesting that our species is a genetic combination of two ...

Explore the origins of human language and its capacity dating back at least 135,000 years, reshaping how we interact.

Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all ...

One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...