What if humans aren't the first technologically advanced civilization to grace our planet? It sounds like science fiction, ...

To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

Figure 1: Homo floresiensis in the context of the evolution and dispersal of the genus Homo. Could LB1 be a pygmy H. sapiens? Again, no. Compared with a human skull scaled to less than a third of ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.