Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

Visitors marvelled at the weathered limestone rocks hanging from the ceiling of South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, millions ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the ...

Analysis - Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of natural environment we evolved in. Until recently, the dominant ...

After a three-year closure due to flooding, South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have reopened ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

Now one of the driest places on Earth, the Saharo-Arabian Desert may have been key to human migration history.