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Human Evolution

An archaeologist, Eiki Suga, showing fine-grained flint (left) and middle-grained flint (right).

Paleolithic humans may have understood the properties of rocks for making stone tools

Categories Brain & Behavior

Humans’ family tree revealed by ancient proteins

Categories Bloggers

Neanderthal

The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomes

Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences

Changes of vegetation between humid and arid phases in North Africa. Vegetation zones are based on the minimum precipitation requirements of each vegetation type.

Why and when the Sahara Desert was green

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment

The core formula of our new inference method is shown. The image depicts a cliff painting, illustrating the population of human ancestor pull together to survive the unknown danger in the darkness during the ancient severe bottleneck.

Early ancestral bottleneck could’ve spelled the end for modern humans

Categories Life & Non-humans

Ham being thinly carved

Oldest Evidence of Cannibalism Identified Among Human Ancestors

Categories Life & Non-humans

Examples of engravings discovered in the Roche-Cotard cave (Indre et Loire - France). On the left, the "circular panel" (ogive-shaped tracings) and on the right the "wavy panel" (two contiguous tracings forming sinuous lines).

France’s La Roche-Cotard Cave Holds Neanderthals’ Oldest Known Engravings

Categories Life & Non-humans

The team excavated through layers of sediments and bones that gradually washed into the cave and were left untouched for tens of thousands of years.

Ancient Human Remains in Laos Cave Hint at Early Migrations

Categories Social Sciences

A composite fossil skeleton of Homo nadedi on display at the Maropeng Museum near Johannesburg, South Africa. PHOTO: JEFF MILLER

Evidence of intentional burial, cave engravings by early human ancestor

Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences

Gorilla spinning in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda

Dizzy apes provide clues on human need for mind altering experiences

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Neanderthal

Ancient Humans Had Same Sense of Smell, But Different Sensitivities

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

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