Archaeologists have dated stone tools from Lopé National Park in Gabon to 620,000 to 850,000 years ago, making them the earliest known evidence of a human presence in the Congo Basin. “In the African ...

The Sterkfontein Caves contain more remains from Australopithecus than anywhere else on Earth. They're part of a major fossil site in South Africa known as the "Cradle of Humankind."Mark Edward Harris ...

Amplitude Studios' Humankind was released on the 17th of August 2021 and has been well-received by fans and critics. The game doesn't try to hide its influences, as it has clear similarities to the ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, the fossil of a small child has been hidden in the darkness of South Africa’s Rising Star cave. The skull, from a child that was 4 to 6 years old at the time of ...

What Europe’s oldest ancient mummy tells us about humankind Researchers at Eurac’s Institute for Mummy Studies have found cold-loving yeasts from Otzi’s skin that have followed him for about 5,300 ...

A Swedish scientist won the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology on Monday for his groundbreaking research into the evolutionary history of humankind. Svante Pääbo, of the Max Planck Institute ...