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New research sheds light on why predators don’t evolve to become so aggressive that they eat all their prey – and then go extinct themselves.

Using DNA from up to 100,000 years ago, researchers have created the world’s largest family tree covering 50,000 generations, that validates the Out-of-Africa theory.

Scientists discovered remnants of an Old Stone Age culture, less than 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Beijing, where ancient hominins used a reddish pigment called ochre and crafted tiny, blade-like tools from stone. The archaeological site, called Xiamabei, offers a rare glimpse into the life of Homo sapiens and now-extinct human relatives who inhabited the region some 40,000 years ago.

Paul Morland’s fascinating new book, Tomorrow’s People, explores the global balance of human births, deaths and migrations

The study helps delineate human genetic diversity and map out how people globally are related to one another, with our species arising in Africa before fanning out worldwide.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected seven outstanding faculty from Arizona State University to the newest class of AAAS Fellows, among the most distinct honors within the scientific community.

My interest is in developing a plausible evidence-based story of how modern humans emerged from ancestral species. This means guessing at what features of humans make us "human" and attempting to see the emergence of each of these features in the fossilized record of our bodies (bones) and behaviors (artifacts and archaeological sites). This question has traditionally been treated, inappropriately, as simple.

A new study suggests pre-Neanderthals carefully placed their hearths to minimize smoke exposure while maximizing room for activities

Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, Ph.D., will make a public presentation at UCM on Monday, March 28.

Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, Ph.D., will make a public presentation at UCM on Monday, March 28.