Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction. It got bigger. That long rise is still ...

Humans have dominated the planet by telling stories; Yuval Noah Harari says we may soon no longer hold the pen Stories can unify or divide but our ability to imagine them is uniquely human.