All inventions cause the world to react in one way or another. In many cases, discoveries push the boundaries of human output and unlock unforeseen possibilities for the species. Of course, for every ...

A bowl of cereal looks simple, but it’s the end of a long chain of choices that changed human life more than almost any invention. Farming didn’t just put food on the table. It reshaped where people ...

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes from living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people in ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...