Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Recent fossil discoveries lend credence to the fascinating proposition that non-human species may have coexisted alongside ...

Archaeologists excavate near the cave at the Sima del Elefante site, near Burgos in northern Spain, where the fossilized skull fragments were found. - Maria D. Guillén/IPHES-CERCA The story of human ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Recent discoveries of massive bones have prompted scientists to re-evaluate the established prehistoric timelines. These findings challenge previous assumptions about the existence and evolution of ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

Tracking the origin and evolution of human populations in Arabia / Jeffrey I. Rose and Michael D. Petraglia -- The Red Sea, coastal landscapes, and hominin dispersals / Geoff Bailey -- Pleistocene ...

(CNN) — The story of human evolution in Europe has a new character. Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that ...

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