Past the agricultural revolution, there’s something of a sea-change in how dogs are found in the archaeological record. They ...

The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient fossils, prehistoric artwork, and other clues to human evolution. Here are nine of the most revealing discoveries that have changed our understanding of our early ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

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 evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It sounds almost magical, yet this is precisely what some scientists are doing ...