For his latest documentary, Austria’s Nikolaus Geyrhalter quite justifiably could have borrowed the title of Chinua Achebe’s best-known novel: Things Fall Apart. But the fact that a ninety-minute film ...

Homo sapiens has existed for at least 300,000 years, but its exact origin is still unknown. Some theories say that it evolved in East Africa about 50,000 years ago and expanded southwards, but now a ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

The history of humanity on Earth spans well over a million years. Ancient human species such as Australopithecus, who walked ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...