For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains. This carnivorous origin story has become so entrenched that few questioned it: our ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

A new bill introduced in the Texas House of Representatives Thursday by state Rep. Stan Gerdes (R-Smithville)— which would be ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the Sima del Elefante cave, located in the Atapuerca mountains of Spain, is changing what we ...

Henry Gee’s previous book, A Brief History of Life on Earth, made an interestingly downbeat read for a title that won the UK’s science book prize. He emphasised that a constant feature of that history ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

After discovering fossilized facial bones in Spain, researchers now say they've found the oldest face of Western Europe. In ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

New fossil evidence from a Spanish cave suggests an unknown prehistoric human population once lived in Europe.

Mice are still incapable of writing the complete works of Shakespeare, despite some being given a human "language gene".