By examining the territory's archaeology, anthropology and linguistics, our new book fits together the missing puzzle pieces ...

All languages likely come from a single original one, and early people began spreading around the world 135,000 years ago.

The interbreeding event contributed around 20% of modern human DNA, with these genes predominantly found in regions ...

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

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

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

Recent research provides compelling evidence that Middle Paleolithic peoples created deliberate patterns on stone artifacts ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

Supernovas, the explosive deaths of massive stars, could have had a devastating impact on Earth's atmosphere, leading to mass ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...