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

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

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

Using dentists' tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared ...

The ongoing intrigue should come as no surprise because, for a long time, Neanderthals were the model for the missing link between our own species, Homo sapiens, and the first apelike pre-human ...

Subsequently, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago. Our species, Homo sapiens, is about 230,000 years old. Estimates of when language originated vary widely, based on different ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

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

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...