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

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 ...

There's no question that humans have left an indelible mark on the world, but we're also inadvertently steering the evolution ...

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

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

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?

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 ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...