Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Based on the timeline, stages, theories, and evidence of human evolution, the science community generally accepts that the ancestors of Homo sapiens originated in Africa and eventually migrated north ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research offers insight into the evolutionary history of amylase genes, which help us eat starchy food. Long before humans ate dinner rolls or french fries, our ancient ancestors carried genes ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

Two macaques learned to keep time with various songs, which might point to how humans got their sense of rhythm. But some ...