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

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

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...

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

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single ...