Yuval Noah Harari’s books illuminate history, technology, and society with bold and interesting insights. A compelling ...

Researchers have uncovered the earliest modern human remains in Europe — bones from Bulgaria’s Bacho Kiro cave that date back ...

Ice Age hearths reveal how early humans mastered fire for warmth, cooking, toolmaking, and survival in extreme environments.

Researchers in Vienna found three fireplaces from the coldest period of the Ice Age, also the most mysterious.

Humans have come a long way as the most dominant species on Earth, largely due to sophisticated adaptations, ingenuity, and ...

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools—it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of ...

Discovered in Taiwan, the jawbone is believed to have belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called ...

The mechanisms behind the development of human language are one of the great mysteries of primate evolution. Biologists have ...

It might not always seem like it but we humans/homo sapiens have been very inventive during our last few hundred thousand years on Earth. I thought of this column a ...