The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and networks to process and store ...

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...

With continued excavation at Swartkrans, researchers hope to uncover more of SWT1/HR-2’s skeleton, which could further ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The six-part series Animals, They’re Just Like Us! lets you peek inside the lives of penguins, giraffes and chimps that behave a whole lot like humans ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...