The first humans to use fire probably didn’t start it themselves. They may have simply stolen it from the landscape, probably ...

Some mathematicians have predicted when humanity’s downfall might occur—though the circumstances are unspecified ...

Fire leaves behind a simple story when it is fresh. Ash settles, bones blacken, wood chars. Over a million years later, that ...

The effect transcends factors like culture, gender and handedness, causing the scientists, who were initially studying social ...

The human lie isn’t a flaw so much as a feature, one that evolution spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting.

Many scientists point to cultural evolution, the process by which knowledge, customs and technology spread over time. But ...

Around 74,000 years ago, Earth experienced one of the most devastating volcanic events in its recent history. The Toba supereruption, centered in what is now Indonesia, blasted 672 cubic miles of ...

We don’t often think of ourselves as a major predator, let alone the most dangerous of them all, but wildlife clearly think differently — and recognize us for what we are. Bear warning in the woods ...

The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have ...

This study is lit. Scientists have discovered charred animal remains in South Africa that are up to 1.8 million years old, ...

Aggie alumna Kim Conley (center) competed in the 5,000 and 10,000 meter events at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. New research supports the idea that humans have long used endurance running as a way ...