Ancient Humans Were Found to be Compassionate to Children With Down Syndrome as Hinted by Fossils The perception of ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

Uncover the groundbreaking discovery of the “Dragon Head” hominid skull in China, a find that challenges the long-standing Out of Africa theory! This fascinating fossil, dating back approximately 300, ...

Self-awareness enabled human dominance, but it now threatens survival. To endure, humanity must use its intelligence ...

Sharing a killer story is immediately bonding in a way little else manages to be. It’s arguably the greatest gift you can ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us communicate in a novel way.

Dr. Robert Darnell, an author of the study and a long-time researcher of NOVA1, believes this variant is among the genes that “contributed to the emergence of Homo sapiens as the dominant ...

The genetic variant researchers were looking at was one of a variety of genes “that contributed to the emergence of Homo sapiens as the dominant species, which we are today” said Dr. Robert ...

"It takes a gene that people had already singled out as having a mutation that's specific to Homo sapiens, that's not present even in our most closely related relatives, the Neanderthals and ...

"It takes a gene that people had already singled out as having a mutation that's specific to Homo sapiens, that's not present even in our most closely related relatives, the Neanderthals and ...