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<p>Research from Nagoya University in Japan suggests that Paleolithic humans in the Middle East selected flint for their cutting tools based on differences in the mechanical properties of the rock. They seem to have purposefully selected the most suitable rocks for fashioning into tools, even being able to distinguish rocks that were unsuitable.</p>

In a study published in the journal “Scientific Reports,” researchers from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (SHEP) at ....

Six million years of human evidence offers a powerful universal education to address humanity’s most significant challenges and opportunities. By Jan

Six million years of human evidence offers a powerful universal education to address humanity’s most significant challenges and opportunities. By Jan Ritch-Frel All of humanity can now take the Grand Tour: a travel circuit of global sites that help ...

Six million years of human evidence offers a powerful universal education to address humanity’s most significant challenges and opportunities.

The researchers say their study pushes back the dates for the use of spear-throwers in Europe by more than 10,000 years.

Analyzing 37,000-year-old skull fragments from Crimea, researchers have traced Homo sapiens ancestors from Eastern Europe to the West.

A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past the Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years.

Scientists found the earliest evidence of burial rituals from 120,000 years ago in ancient caves located in Israel. Read more here.