Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

“Very early modern humans from 40,000 years ago don’t have ... Like these kind of feel good stories? Get The Brighter Side of News' newsletter.

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern humans. The archaeological record ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

Specifically, Cann and colleagues hypothesized that the ancestress of all of modern humanity lived only 200,000 years ago, rather than more than a million years ago, when primitive humans first ...

Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving human species: us. Investigate what defines a hominin and how much we modern humans have in common with other ...

"It's well known that by the time modern humans come on the landscape ... but also build boats and get across ocean straits and get to different islands." It's still unknown whether they could ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...