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

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

Until now, though, the oldest firm evidence for people living in African rainforests dated to around 18,000 years ago. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

South Africa's 'cradle of humankind' caves reopen to public Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

The activity beneath the Earth’s surface is often undetectable to us, but it has the power to shape land masses […] ...