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

Understanding this human specificity could deepen our comprehension of cultural evolution and raise essential questions about our future. How will our culture continue to evolve with the advent of ...

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

Human evolutionary studies are unified through a shared foundational interest in the course and context of humankind's biological evolution, our cultural evolution, and the coevolutionary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Journal of Human Evolution 59, 87-95 (2010). Heinrich, J. Demography and cultural evolution: How adaptive cultural processes can produce maladaptive losses: The Tasmanian case. American Antiquity ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

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