Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

For generations, the story of human origins has been a complex tapestry, pieced together from fossil records and genetic ...

Nearly one million years ago, humanity came perilously close to disappearing. A new study reveals that our ancestors may have ...

What does it take to “be human,” anyway? These questions are at the heart of “A Brief History of the Future,” a unique PBS documentary series hosted by renowned futurist Ari Wallach.

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

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Three years after the outbreak of a devastating infectious disease with a staggering death toll, spending time with a book that vividly details the microbial richness of human history might not ...

EXCLUSIVE: Karga Seven Pictures, the Turkish-American producer backed by Peter Chernin‘s North Road Company, has acquired Simon Sebag Montefiore’s book The World: A Family History Of Humanity.