The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

During the ongoing exhibition, Radiance of the East: Million-Year Human Imprint in Nihewan, at the Natural History Museum of ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Doctors of modern medicine balance scientific evidence with religious beliefs to provide holistic care to patients ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Yuval Noah Harari cautions that AI is transforming from a mere tool to an autonomous agent capable of making independent ...

As I write, hundreds of ancient human remains are secretly being buried in a remote desert 1,000km from Sydney (New South ...