When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

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Fact of the Day is a simple yet fascinating way to learn something new daily. In this world, there is an endless amount of ...

Almost 100 years before calls to decolonize science, Taung was challenging researchers to reassess their internal biases.

A hypothesis suggesting that ancient humans came from the prehistoric Indonesian archipelago, or Nusantara, is part of a ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable ...

One possible member of the new species H. juluensis isn’t a newcomer to science by any stretch. Denisovans—first identified ...

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Kissing is something of a mystery, being "only documented in 46 percent of human cultures," noted psychologist Catherine ...