What took so long for humans to appear on Earth? The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, and life began about 4 billion years ago, yet humans—the only intelligent, technological species we know of in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the psychology of leadership, tech and entrepreneurship. While the human quest of meaning is perennial, the answers ...

In the summer of 1856, laborers at a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf were clearing mud and chert out of a cave when they turned up a fossilized skull. It was long and elliptical, with wide sinuses ...

Introduction: Ingredients of the past -- Part 1: Edible Foundations Of Civilization -- 1: Invention of farming -- 2: Roots of modernity -- Part 2: Food And Social Structure -- 3: Food, wealth, and ...

Genes make us who we are—but are they shaped by chance, natural selection, or something else?

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

This video chronicles the evolution of human civilization from 200,000 BCE to the present, highlighting significant changes ...

A groundbreaking international study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity s longest known prehistoric migration walking more than 20,000 kilometers over thousands of years from North Asia ...

History is typically shaped by battles, revolutions, and inventions, but some of the most consequential turning points began ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, palaeoanthropology and its related fields ...