With continued excavation at Swartkrans, researchers hope to uncover more of SWT1/HR-2’s skeleton, which could further ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

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Philadelphia’s Shamir has announced he’s releasing his final solo album, Ten, and has shared its first single, “Neverwannago, ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.