After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

The new review, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, examines over a dozen genetic studies published in the past 18 years to indicate an initial branching of humans about 135,000 years ago ...

(that’s us) did not descend from a neat, single lineage. Instead, modern humans can link their heritage back to at least two ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Credit: Museum of Natural History of the University of Pisa / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between ...

Fears of inflation could creep into the US Federal Reserve's calculations on interest rates. The BBC's Erin Delmore reports from New York. BBC Click visits a UK research team working on a solution to ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...