Our preconceptions are often challenged when we engage with people cross-culturally. What might we discover if we turn that ...

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...

The first ever transplantation of a pig's liver into a living person helps us better understand how animal organs can be used ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

From murky origins, the sideshow attraction was heralded as a potential scientific breakthrough, some sort of missing link.

Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.

The skull, called Yunxian 2, appears to be that of a man possibly 30 to 40 years old ... classified as belonging to the hominin species Homo erectus, which had body proportions resembling our own but ...

An author and scientist says that upcoming moon missions will uncover a shocking forgotten city that was covered up during the Cold War.

Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...