Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all ...

Discoveries in Tinshemet Cave reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

The story about our ancestors can change at any moment thanks to the tireless work of researchers. In 2022, a team of experts unearthed fragments of a human skull in the Sima del E ...

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

This date serves as a “lower boundary” for when language capacity must have emerged. But since Homo sapiens is at least ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed for the final time on March 18, 2005. Her legacy continues to shape the pro-life ...

Some experts think “xenobot” cells that reorganize themselves after death signify a form of consciousness—while others ...

Humanity could someday become unable to control advanced artificial intelligence, a renowned Israeli historian and the ...