During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” ...

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The enlightened truth of the role of fire in human evolution. Illustration by Paul ... with the huge variety of tasks required by modern life. The most enduring tool that fire ever made might ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the ...

The story of human evolution just took a dramatic turn ... anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Live Science. A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern ...

The discovery of bone implements that are the oldest ever found, by far, casts light on human evolution. It shows that our hominin ancestors were able to think about and make this technology a lot ...