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

AI is starting to mediate our personal lives – and may be the biggest test so far of what we think it means to be human.

The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

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

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

A small minority that produces this technology and collects all human data treats humanity as "experimental subjects." In ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

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

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.