For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some ...

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

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This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

New discoveries reveal that giant sloths and mastodons coexisted with early humans in the Americas for millennia.

Mars isn’t just a cold, barren rock. Anthropologists argue that the tracks of rovers and broken probes are archaeological ...

The Economist tries “slow journalism” with Paul Salopek ...

We Homo sapiens possess surprisingly few functional genes that distinguish us from extinct human lineages such as ...

The number of humans inhabiting Earth has steadily increased since Homo sapiens arrived. But this global population growth is unsustainable.

"Homo sapiens are currently undergoing a dispersal, which first started out of Africa, reached other continents, and has now begun in off-world environments." ...

Exploring Mars' human artifacts as historical treasures, not trash, offering insight into humanity's space migration.

As the world undergoes rapid change due to anthropogenic carbon emissions, scientists will need to know what plants have the ...