Some people always have their noses in a book, Judy Dworin uses her feet. The well-known Hartford-area modern dance ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, ...

The buried remains of a small child, discovered nearly a century ago in a cave on Israel’s Mount Carmel, are once again at ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, ...

I think his ideas and arguments are still worth grappling with as one tries to make sense of this ever stranger world.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

AI is transforming scams into hyper-personalised, deepfake-fuelled attacks that are harder to detect and far more convincing, ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...