An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the history of modern humans. Using careful 3D scanning and digital ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

Excavations of Neolithic site in Turkey suggest human settlements more than 12,000 years ago ...

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In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers explore the differences between various demographic models using diversity-based statistics and linkage disequilibrium. Previous studies ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

The biblical concept of imago Dei sets the Judeo-Christian narrative apart from other ancient origin stories. Recently, there have been discussions about the core identity of humankind—whether we are ...

The origin of Humanity (the video game) sounds like the end of humanity (the concept). Visual director Yugo Nakamura and his team of creatives asked a simple question: “How many digital people can we ...

“There are things that should not be done … I don’t see the difference between things that people shouldn’t do and things that computers shouldn’t do. What should not be done is to allow computers to ...