Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is joining Senate colleagues questioning the Trump administration’s efforts to divert federal agents ...

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

This National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, my Administration renews our commitment to end the evil of human trafficking, restore ...

New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...