The case of a pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead and has been on life support for three months has given ...

Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived — and that’s true for early human ancestors, too. Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place stress on ...

Homo naledi – the extinct human species of Netflix fame – had hands that were partially adapted to climbing and partly ...

A recent study explores how this episode could have differently affected Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. During this period, Earth's magnetic field weakened, exposing the planet to increased cosmic ...

Two fine new books about Magnus Hirschfeld have been published; Daniel Brook’s “The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin” and Brandy Schillace’s “The Intermediaries: A ...

A new genomic study in Science encompassing more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 years has revealed how a single wave of Neanderthal gene flow into early modern humans left an indelible ...

Did Homo naledi have a soul? That may sound like a very strange question, but let me explain the context. It is now 10 years since the excavation of H naledi’s skeletal remains in the Cradle of ...

One effect of all that dish was to turn the idea of the closet into something more complex than an in-or-out binary. It was ...

Today we know that the mountains were not a barrier, but rather a passage frequented by the Homo sapiens of the Upper Palaeolithic. Among the project’s many surprises, three specimens of ...

Receiving the most attention from commenters, the first shirt read '¿Homo estas?' - a play on '¿Cómo estás?,' which means 'how are you?' in Spanish. The word 'homo' on the dark-blue top was ...