The inhabitants probably hadn’t mastered fire-making, but researchers say they may have moved and maintained flames from a ...

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The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the ...

Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

Humans Are Still Evolving. Natural Selection Has Favored Genes Linked to Red Hair and Less Male-Pattern Baldness, a Study ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Trump on Saturday hailed the US as the "crowning achievement" of human history, and renewed his attacks on "communists" ...

The study of human origins provides a fundamental narrative for our biological and cultural evolution. By combining fossil evidence with archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data, we can trace the ...

Human-AI interactions can resemble human-human social interactions, with computers, and especially AI-driven technologies, becoming increasingly important social actors. It is in these interactions ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, paleoanthropology and its related fields ...

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An excavated cave near Haifa, Israel, may offer archaeologists an unusually direct record from a poorly documented phase of human evolution. Researchers say the site captures one preserved episode of ...