Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact ...

Humans have the potential to achieve a higher consciousness, but are prevented by psychological conditioning, and a leap of ...

Hank brings you the facts, as they are understood by scientists today, about the evolution of humans from our humble primate ...

Before Homo sapiens appeared as a result of evolution, nature had made numerous attempts to create intelligent beings, with varying degrees of success.

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There is a great paradox to human evolution. It took billions of years to evolve a brain with the capacity for unmediated awareness of the sacred, but the prisms of belief systems, knowledge and ...

Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story ...

Excavations at the Husta Bronze Age site in Wenquan county, Xinjiang, revealed one of the region's earliest Bronze Age ...

Prolific author Bill Bryson thought he was finished. The universe had other plans.