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Posted 05.19.2013
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Science
By Heather Pringle Archaeologists have long debated when early humans began hurling stone-tipped spears and darts at large prey. By throwing a spear...
By Michael Balter Researchers debate when language first evolved, but one thing is sure: Language requires us not only to talk but also to listen. A...
Our evolutionary ancestors were hungry for braaaiiins--antelope brains, that is. Sets of animal bones recently unearthed in Kenya, believed to be the ...
Our human lineage is not actually linear. In fact, it's more of a branching tree, telling the story of our origins in Africa and our migrations throug...
BERLIN — Researchers in Germany said Tuesday they have completed the first high-quality sequencing of a Neanderthal genome and are making it fre...
By: Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/18/2013 05:06 PM EDT on LiveScience Inbreeding may have been a common practice among earl...
By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/12/2013 08:25 PM EDT on LiveScience Neanderthals' keen vision may explain why they couldn't ...
Why did Neanderthals become extinct? Scientists have offered a variety of theories, from climate change and cataclysmic volcanic eruptions to interbr...
By: Megan Gannon, News Editor Published: 12/10/2012 09:35 AM EST on LiveScience A bundle of recent genetic studies have suggested modern humans ha...
NEW YORK -- Scientists say they've found evidence that stone tips for spears were made much earlier than thought, maybe even created by an earlier anc...
By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 11/07/2012 01:19 PM EST on LiveScience Rocks carved into ancient stone arrowheads or into let...
By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 11/01/2012 09:40 AM EDT on LiveScience The only modern humans whose ancestors did not interbr...
By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 08/20/2012 03:14 PM EDT on LiveScience Newfound pieces of human skull from "the Cave of ...
By Katherine Harmon There has been fierce debate recently over whether the original “caveman” diet was one of heaps of bloody meat or fields of g...
By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 08/08/2012 01:05 PM EDT on LiveScience New fossils from the dawn of the human lineage suggest...
By Rob Dunn Paleolithic diets have become all the rage, but they are getting our ancestral diet all wrong. Right now, one half of all Americans ar...
By Ann Gibbons Talk about a high-fiber diet: the newest member of the human family, Australopithecus sediba, ate enough bark, leaves, and fruit that...
Even the most democratic societies are rife with social and economic inequalities, as the current tension between the poorer "99%" and the richest "1%...
By: OurAmazingPlanet Staff Published: 05/07/2012 04:28 PM EDT on OurAmazingPlanet Scientists have announced the discovery of a newfound crocodile ...
By Kate Wong The impact of Homo sapiens on the environment over the past few hundred years has been so profound that some scientists term this chapte...
By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/02/2012 03:11 PM EDT on LiveScience Ash and charred bone, the earliest known evidence of...
What did our 'cave parents' look like? Without a family album going back 7 million years, it can be tough to imagine them, especially when all we see ...
JOHANNESBURG -- Tens of thousands of years before scientists had realized, our ancestors in what is now South Africa were making their homes safer and...
By Kate Wong (Click here for original article.) JOHANNESBURG -- At a tea party earlier today for a research team at the University of the Witwater...
History.com - Early human males may have been homebodies who barely strayed from their native caves, while their female counterparts roamed far and wi...
