Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Human historians are ever more vital in the age of AI—especially with the crucial need to capture the emotional and moral ...

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, is expanding at a critical moment in the United States.

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Volcanic eruptions are excellent timekeepers because they happen very quickly, geologically speaking. As hot magma erupts, it cools and solidifies into volcanic ash particles and pumice rocks. Pumice ...

A groundbreaking discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveals that early hominins crossed treacherous seas over a ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

A new study has revealed shocking information about modern humans, dramatically rewriting the continent’s history.

The fierce debate over whether Homo sapiens was the first species to bury its dead is far from over. After a decade of ...

The vivid reconstructions are based on two skulls found in urns excavated in 2021 at a burial ground in southern India ...