You may have heard that the human brain can manage social relationships with about 150 people. Or perhaps you heard 2...
It’s an age-old question in evolution: how did humans become the dominant primate, able to venture out from tropical ...
The closest ancestor to modern humans – Neanderthals – were capable of understanding and producing human speech, acco...
An image of a kangaroo has been identified as Australia’s oldest known rock painting, dated to over 17,000 years old....
Researchers have identified a mutated gene that appears to be responsible for a large disparity between Neanderthal a...
Humans and Neanderthals could have more in common than just DNA – we also might share the microorganisms in our gut. ...
Across the world, it’s what humans and other organisms have left behind that’s advanced our understanding of the Eart...
The Anthropocene marks relentless and increasingly grave environmental degradation as the Earth faces tipping points ...
The enigmatic Venus figurines, one of world's earliest known examples of art, are the subject of much conjecture. ...
Franz Uri Boas has been described as “the father of the field” of anthropology (The Atlantic), the professor who “pio...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had a history of skilfully resourcing food and managing the land long be...
Neolithic toolmakers in southern Arabia created intricate stone weapons designed both to be useful and to showcase th...
