Beyond mere biological evolution, the story of our species is filled with cultural and technological revolutions that have ...

Archaeologists have found evidence that dramatically rewrites human history. A 210,000-year-old Homo sapiens skull fragment ...

Neanderthals are among the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, but they buried their dead differently than early Homo sapiens did, new evidence suggests. Among the hominins — the group ...

A study comparing fossil skulls and great ape anatomy reveals how temporal lobes evolved in response to social complexity and ...

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins started burying their dead around the same time and roughly the same place, some 120,000 years ago. This suggests the two species may have had, at ...

The thinking of early theorists was that our evolution was a coordinated, linear process. Our ancestors’ brains grew steadily ...

The two species began burying their dead at roughly the same time and place. Now some archaeologists think competition may ...