The study of mitochondrial DNA has enabled scientists to trace a family tree that connects all of humanity to a single female ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

Back in college, I had to present a paper on cultural studies, which was my favorite thing to learn about then. After I was ...

When you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties. You might think ...

Full-frontal male nudity in all three series of The White Lotus has provoked waves of reaction and comment. Why does showing a penis on screen still have the ability to shock? Episode four of The ...

His concerns align with themes he has explored in his books, particularly Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, where he examines the potential of AI surpassing human intelligence. In Sapiens, he ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Evidence of one of the smallest - and perhaps unluckiest - early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to ...

One of the smallest human relatives ever found has been unearthed in South Africa. Standing just 3 feet, 4.5 inches (1.03 meters) tall, the adult Paranthropus robustus, who died 2 million years ...