When humans first reared our heads out of that one tree in Sub-Saharan Africa, we only had one thing on our collective mind – ...

His left leg won Best Leg Sleeve at the Baltimore Tattoo Arts Festival, and his left forearm is quilted with the Duomo of Florence, Michelangelo’s David and “The Creation of Adam,” and a ...

the rise of Homo sapiens with an established language. These steps are "hard" in the sense that they would only have developed once (as opposed to, for example, the evolutionary development of eyes, ...

Not all accounts of prehistory have been quite so triumphant. According to Geroulanos, Rousseau was the first to articulate modernity’s fascination with the distant past. The idea of the state of ...

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

More than 1.5 million years ago, two different species of ancient human crossed paths on a lakeshore, perhaps locking eyes ...

After combing through the literature, the team found five Neanderthal burial sites and two Homo sapiens burial sites in the region from this period. The Neanderthals almost entirely buried their ...

For a good 2 million years, Homo sapiens and their ancestors ditched the salad and dined heavily on meat, putting them at the top of the food chain. It's not quite the balanced diet of berries ...

We've known for some time now that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, also known as archaic humans, interbred before Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. In fact, in some ways, Neanderthals ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...