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

Should I stay with the hand I’m holding or touch the table for another card? The tension between the two impulses creates the ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

More recently the species has been renamed Paranthropus boisei and described as a branch of the human family tree, but not a direct ancestor of Homo sapiens. The anatomy was unlike Lucy ...

Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies with distinct features that challenge predictions made by the ...