Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over the start date of Homo sapiens.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

Human Evolution 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone discovered in Republic of Georgia — and it may be earliest evidence yet of Homo erectus Archaeology 30,000-year-old 'personal toolkit' found in the ...

The human brain grew from a survival machine into the most complex organ on Earth—fueling language, culture, and technology.

Not literally, of course. But similarly to an ant colony, two scientists say our collective culture—not genetics—has become ...

New research suggests that Homo floresiensis’ short stature is probably the result of a type of dwarfism that occurs in ...

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...