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Negative biases about our forebears have long been part of science, education, and popular culture. Why?

Paleoanthropologists studying the fossil record have long focused on natural selection, but other processes play a big role too.

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When The Croods hit theaters in 2013, it provided moviegoers with a comedic window into what it might have been like in the early days of human evolution. We follow a family of indeterminate “cave people” as they encounter an array of wild (and mostly imagined) animals and other environmental threats in search of a new home. As the story progressed through a sequel and an episodic animated series (now streaming on Peacock!), they encounter not just interesting animals, but other gr...

Nine cut marks on a 1.45 million-year-old hominin bone suggest another hominin, possibly of the same species, slashed the bone to strip the flesh and eat it.

Anthropology and archaeology are revealing that a human society can take myriad forms, which can teach us how to build a modern society that is more equal, resilient and stable

Experts complain that Spielberg’s saga shows them as ‘treasure hunters’ and that the main character destroys sites to get hold of a magical object

After collecting dust for half a century, a superlatively ancient whodunnit has entered into the spotlight.

A team of paleontologists believe they have found evidence of ceremonial burials dating back 240,000 years, long before our species, Homo sapiens, came into existence. I say ceremonial because, according to the scientists, it would not simply be a matter of burying the corpses underground, but of carrying them through a labyrinth of naturally formed tunnels in the limestone rocks of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. The bodies appeared in fetal position and sometimes had a stone to...

Bone fragments found in a mountain cave in northern Laos are the oldest evidence of modern humans in South-East Asia, suggesting our species was in the region much earlier than previously thought, say scientists.