Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

Beyond mere biological evolution, the story of our species is filled with cultural and technological revolutions that have ...

The Levant, encompassing modern-day Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian territories, was a cultural crossroads during the Middle Paleolithic period. Both groups of hominins arrived at similar ...

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

The thinking of early theorists was that our evolution was a coordinated, linear process. Our ancestors’ brains grew steadily ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.