While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums began evolving much earlier than assumed.

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier. Since evolving from the common ancestor that we share with our closest ...

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to rethink how our species emerged and spread. Instead of a neat story in which ...

As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

At the heart of scientific questions about the origins of humanity lie questions of human nature. Are Homo sapiens intrinsically lovers or fighters, predators or prey, lucky survivors or inevitable ...