Sunscreen, Clothes and Caves May Have Helped Homo Sapiens Survive ... played a key role in the evolution of ... Fossils and Fires: Insights Into Early Modern Human Activity in the Jungles of ...

BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- From a 60,000-year-old Paleolithic settlement to a third-century Buddhist temple along the ancient Silk Road, China on Thursday unveiled its top 10 archaeological ...

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

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

Findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, show that different hominin groups, including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ... a major sign of cultural evolution.

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In humans, facial growth slows down during childhood and stops after ...

BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- From a 60,000-year-old Paleolithic settlement to a third-century Buddhist temple along the ancient Silk Road, China on Thursday unveiled its top 10 archaeological ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

Yuval Noah Harari’s books illuminate history, technology, and society with bold and interesting insights. A compelling ...

when australopithecines started on the path to Homo sapiens, conceived as the trigger-point of “ensoulment”? If not, when, where and how in the long journey of human evolution did the switch ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

previously associated only with Homo sapiens, may therefore have an older origin. Interactions between these human groups would have fostered cultural homogenization. This discovery positions the ...