We have an enduring cultural fascination with the early human ancestors who once lived on — and even shared — our planet. Now, it appears that one of our ancestral species had burial rituals that ...

A team of European researchers has identified a new species of proto-human that left Africa about a million years ago and traveled at least as far as southern Siberia before disappearing. The ...

A team of European researchers has identified a new lineage of proto-human that left Africa about a million years ago, traveling as far as Siberia and then dying out -- a discovery that raises new ...

I said previously that human self-conscious awareness arose as a consequence of two other unique human attributes, our capacity for language and our ability to continually transform the world by ...