The origins of cultural innovations in early Homo sapiens have sparked much debate. However, a significant discovery in Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy, may resolve one such long-standing ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of early human presence in the Pyrenean valleys, dating back 25,000 years.

Researchers reveal how past climate shifts and vegetation changes drove the evolution and migration of early human species ...

The discovery of a Neanderthal named Thorin reveals a previously unknown lineage that diverged from other Neanderthals ...

A long-running argument between archaeologists and geneticists has finally been settled - and the answer could help explain ...

A new study supports a growing theory that the Neanderthals' downfall was not due to environmental changes or disease but their antisocial lifestyle.

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

Up to now, the main theories for their demise were climate change, a disease outbreak, and even violence - or interbreeding - ...

The history of human settlement in the valleys of the Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees has always been closely tied to climate ...

In this book, Harari examines humanity's potential future, speculating how technological advances and artificial intelligence ...

Maybe a better way to look at it is that physicians often seem to be dealing with a whole new kind of biology; a whole new ...

The other side of the tea raj When the Britishers introduced tea as an export crop to old Ceylon in mid 19th century, it was ...