Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means ...

In a nutshell Different human species shared identical cultural practices 100,000 years ago, suggesting social interaction ...

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the practice, experts believe whole-body manipulation focused on the ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Tinshemet Cave, located in central Israel, has provided compelling evidence that ...

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...

In any event, human cultural evolution blocked any path to elephant civilization. The history of human collective risk management has had the structure of a ratchet. Major risks have been managed ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Now it turns out that some birdsongs also contain a hidden world of shared language, with varying local accents and dialects ...

New research shows how bird songs evolve with population changes. Young birds drive new songs, while older ones preserve ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

Anthropologists, social scientists and veterans from Arizona State University and the Naval Postgraduate School are the first to analyze the relationship between the hormones cortisol and testosterone ...