Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

Sundaland was a vast Southeast Asian landmass that existed for most of the last 2 million years, exposed during glacial periods when sea levels were over 120 meters lower than today. This connected ...

Thus, the Torah tells the Jewish umma, and the Qur’an tells the Muslim umma, the importance of picking yourself up and going (Hajj in Arabic, Hag in Hebrew) with masses of other members of your umma, ...

The controlled use of fire was a landmark event for the human evolutionary lineage, not only for cooking and providing ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A study scanned genomes from over 450,000 people to find individuals who carry rare archaic versions of DNA changes once ...

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...