In the anthology A Random Walk in Science, D.A. Wright delights us with a fantastic essay titled A Theory of Ghosts. It starts from the assumption that ghosts can go through walls and doors but remain ...

The Out of Africa model posits that all living humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) descend from a population that first appeared in Africa and subsequently spread throughout that continent and across ...

The process of the great continent of Africa losing its eastern shoulder will be slow and gradual rather than a sudden, ...

A Brief History of Humankind" returns with an examination of the power of intelligence to shape and control civilizations ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

Presenting a series of articles on the human species, with special reference to its origins. It is now clear that tools antedate man, and that their use by prehuman primates gave rise to Homo sapiens ...

sapiens that specialists can often distinguish bones from the two groups. Neanderthals had a longer, lower skull with a ...

A discovery of a child's tooth and stone tools in a cave in southern France suggests Homo sapiens was in western Europe about 54,000 years ago. That is several thousands of years earlier than ...

Neanderthals evolved in Europe and Asia while modern humans - our species, Homo sapiens - were evolving in Africa. Judging from fossil evidence from Sima de los Huesos in northern Spain and Swanscombe ...

25, 2024 — A new study combining genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence has unveiled the Persian Plateau as a pivotal geographic location serving as a hub for Homo sapiens during ...

The slow arrival of vaccines to the increasing number of countries ravaged by mpox shows that the COVID-19 pandemic did not ...