Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...

In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting ...

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor, perhaps as recently as 5 to 10 million years ago. At some stage the hominids split ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern humans. The archaeological record ...

The first is the 'human revolution', when evidence for art, music, religion and language first appears. The second is the economic and social revolution of the Neolithic period. Gamble identifies the ...

(Scene from Canada: A People's History) Thus he made the land. We do not know this by ourselves, we were told it by our fathers and grandfathers, who learned it from their fathers and grandfathers.

... Humankind. The Road Ahead: From running and riding to driving and flying, ours has always been a species on the move. And the quest to find faster ways to get ...

Harari’s "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" has sold some 25 million copies, counting Barack Obama and prominent Silicon Valley bros among his apostles. It argues that cognition and ...