Researchers in Kent, England, have unearthed 800 prehistoric artifacts, including two “giant hand axes” believed to be more than 300,000…
An evolutionary scholar examines racist and sexist depictions of human evolution that continue to permeate science, education, and popular culture.…
What makes us human? A lot of people would argue it is the ability of our species to engage in…
New evidence from caves in Spain shows that Neanderthals engaged in complex symbolic thought—and were pretty good artists to boot.…
(Image: Fossilized hippopotamid skeleton with Oldowan artifacts) Archaeologists have revealed what could be the oldest stone tools ever found, and…
Aminopeptidase N is a protein that acts as a receptor for coronaviruses, the family of viruses behind recent epidemics of…
Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how…
Some 60 years ago, two researchers, Joe Hin Tjio and Albert Levan, discovered that the number of chromosomes (karyotype) in humans was 46…
New evidence is prompting researchers to rethink Homo sapiens’ origin story—and what it means to be human. ✽ AS A UNIVERSITY…
The "robust" australopiths are a group of hominins with large cheek teeth and strongly built jaws that lived alongside the…