What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories ...

Today I’d like you to join me as I continue my father’s work, only this time going back an additional 16 million generations ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

An international team of researchers said Thursday that they had found two sets of hominin footprints that were made about ...

Two species of ancient humans walked beside each other 1.5 million years ago, fossil footprints have revealed.

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

Newly discovered fossil footprints indicate two different ancient human relatives walked upright around a muddy lake in Kenya ...

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

Scientists have shown that women don’t actually gossip more than men but that they do so in a much more thought-out manner.

There’s a profound idea behind the Sufi poet Rumi’s phrase, “letting life live through you.” It refers to gaining power through surrender, which sounds like a contradiction. Sitting passively and ...

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