In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

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The modern science biography must hold back no punches in its mission to represent the subject's life, equally celebrating ...

SAPIEN FEELING" examines the human-centric bias shaping our perceptions in a symbiotic world of technology, nature, and evolving relationships ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory.

One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests.Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a ...

Dense with tall, light-swallowing spruce trees and rooted in sodden, fertile ground, the Šumava Forest along the Czech-German ...

WASHINGTON - Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms ...

Jane Goodall began her groundbreaking field study by living among chimpanzees in Tanzania. In 1986, she told the BBC how ...

Yet, none of these alone explain the extraordinary rise of human civilisation from scattered bands of hunter-gatherers to ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...