In eastern China, archaeologists brushed away layers of soil to reveal something astonishing: a 7,000-year-old fire-drilling ...

Self-awareness enabled human dominance, but it now threatens survival. To endure, humanity must use its intelligence ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives ... they had the controlled use of fire," he said. "You start to see the emergence of specialization, different tools for ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

While Silicon Valley dreams of sleek, uniform progress, India opts for a patchwork quilt stitched together with hope, ...

Fire, one of humanity’s greatest discoveries, is a symbol of progress. Picture our ancestors watching with awe as a lightning strike set a forest ablaze. Slowly, they learned to harness this ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Three hundred thousand years ago, the first generations of Homo sapiens huddled in caves, seeking shelter from the darkness. The fire flickered in the center, casting shadows on the walls and ...