Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in ...

HEFEI — Chinese scientists have unearthed dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, the earliest evidence in East ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

Research indicates that the complex behaviors used in human language and tool making, such as organizing actions into sequences, may have evolved in our common ancestors with chimpanzees. This study ...

Imagine our early human ancestors standing in the ancient landscapes, thoughtfully examining rocks, deciding which to use for ...

The Julurens — or “big head” people — are twisting scientists’ long-accepted understanding of human evolution. How humans came to be is largely understood to have been a linear process ...

Thinking about numbers engages a brain region linked to fundamental functions, offering key insights for education and ...

The putamen is usually related to functions such as movement and cognition, but rarely to higher-level aspects of human ...

Culture is central to defining humanity. Throughout history, many definitions have been proposed to describe what we mean ...

Human evolution, traditionally driven by natural selection, may have reached a point where technological and medical ...

South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has spoken passionately about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all the way back to when she was ...