As The Jungle Book’s King Louie knows all too well, the ability to control fire is what sets humans apart from apes, fueling our cultural and biological evolution and rocketing us into the space age.

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common and sophisticated, its effects on human lives and societies raises new questions. A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology posits ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

Animated three-dimensional illustrations present the evolution of mankind from the earliest animal in the earliest days of life on Earth. siris_sil_468262 ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...

"A love of complex smells and flavours gave our ancestors an edge and stopped hangovers." —Donna Ferguson, "How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution" "Homo Sapiens, the name of ...

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...