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

The prevailing narrative in human history is that humanity emerged from Africa, which is true to an extent, but there may be ...

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

From clay tablets to electronic tablets, technology has played an influential role in shaping human knowledge. Today we stand ...

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

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 ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has turned traditional thinking on its head by ...