Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary ...

Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. Researchers have analyzed 917 native forest plant species in Central and ...

The question of where we come from is one that has fascinated humans for centuries,” states Dr. Trevor Cousins of the ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil recently offered researchers ... trapped warmth but also blocked harmful rays, allowing Homo sapiens to forage farther from their shelters.

The genomes of long-living, big-brained mammal species reveal that they carry more copies of immunity genes. Experts ...

Decision-making is more than a routine act — it’s a mirror of thought and a statement of intention. While some of its aspects ...

Where exactly do these primitive Homo sapiens fit into our evolution – were they our ancestors, or more likely, competing side-branches in the human evolutionary tree? How modern – how human, for lack ...

Researchers uncover new evidence of how ancient human relatives in South Africa used their hands, revealing varying levels of ...

It is another steamy morning in Puerto Maldonado, and Gabriel Granados Olivera and I are sitting on a low-slung motorized ...

Governments look for short-term economic gains and multinational corporations continue to plunder natural resources with impunity ...

Spinney makes the case that PIE’s viral spread is, and I quote, “easily the most important event of the last five millennia ...