Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Not only was it the hottest year in recorded human history, for the first time Earth’s average global temperature reached ...

Lorna Simpson encountered this book several years ago and has since remained curious about the stuff-of-legends yet ...

An Oxford academic has theorized about what might happen if humans were to go extinct and reveals which species could take ...

The authors of Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems, including the director of the ... occurring now are fundamentally different from those at any other time in history. . . . We live on a ...

Book jacket: Plagues Upon the Earth by Kyle Harper (Princeton University ... turns up again and again throughout the book (and human history). Chapter 6 goes on to detail how human society was ...

The climate crisis has gone so far that it's altering the shape and spin of our planet, and changing our experience of time itself, according to a new study published in the journal Nature on ...