The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it ...

Marx and Aristotle analyzed value and labor, showing how ancient hopes for freedom through automation became modern tools of ...

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South America, a new genetic investigation suggests ...

This video explores the discovery of fire and how it transformed early human society, from cooking to protection against predators. Justice Kagan warns Supreme Court just went against 90 years of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived — and that’s true for early human ancestors, too. Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place stress on ...

Archaeology sometimes feels like detective work with a very long timeline. Every chip of flint or shard of bone builds a narrative of how early humans used tools to feed themselves, cooperated, and ...

Long before the rise of Mesopotamian empires or the construction of Egypt’s pyramids, early humans journeyed out of Africa and paused in what is now the United Arab Emirates. In Mleiha ...

Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China Sociophysics involves the use of physical models to describe human society. This makes it possible to simplify the ...

This ancient structure challenges everything we thought about early human creativity. The wall, constructed from stones bonded with clay, once sealed off two-thirds of the cave’s entrance, leaving an ...

This rock also contains valuable information about the climate over the past 150,000 years, when modern humans were flowing out of Africa, into the Arabian Peninsula and onward to Europe and Asia.