An 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

Most people have heard of at least one early species closely related to modern humans: the humble Neanderthal, a widespread ...

Everyone’s seen Rudolph Zallinger’s “The March of Progress” illustration showcasing the evolution of humans: from early ...

A recent groundbreaking study has radically altered our understanding of human evolution. Homo sapiens, traditionally thought ...

If you ever travel back in time to hang out with Homo sapiens around 41,000 years ago ... its association primarily with anatomically modern humans (during the Laschamps) is also suggestive ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

The beginning of Homo sapiens belief in gods did not start with a sense of awe, as primitive human beings observed the sun and moon with a sense of wonder. That is too philosophical. More likely it ...

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and ...

Imagination evolved to aid human survival, but its excessive use can worsen modern distress. Learn how to harness it with awareness, therapy, and creativity for a balanced mind.

The coincidental emergence of lactase persistence mutations with livestock domestication was taken by many scientists at the ...

We now know the adolescent brain goes through a new phase of plasticity in which environmental factors can have major lasting effects on cortical circuitry ...