A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

A cooperation experiment shows for the first time that animals, as well as people, are capable of communicating new ...

The Dawn of Mankind Our journey begins in the depths of time, where our earliest ancestors roamed the earth. These ...

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...

They say it's important to look to the past in order to move forward into the future. Humans have evolved considerably, but ...

Ever since Charles Darwin detailed the mechanism of evolution by means of natural selection in 1859, scientists have had a ...

A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have been a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals. In their paper ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence showing a hominin presence in Europe, half-a-million years earlier than previously thought ...

Claims that we ought to subscribe to a low-carb, high-protein 'paleo diet' are typically based on assertions our ancestors avoided complicated plant processing in favor of simpler meals consisting of ...