Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

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Charles Darwin, the father of modern evolutionary theory, believed that music in human society arose as a result of sexual selection: When certain traits lead to greater mating success and therefore ...

Archaeologists have identified the oldest known example of sewn hide, a small fragment of elk hide meticulously stitched with twisted fiber, dating back approximately 12,400 years. Found within Cougar ...

Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than once believed.

By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature ...

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Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...