
Five Breakthrough Signs of Early Peoples in the Americas
More and more archaeological finds reveal a complex picture of how and when people first arrived in North America.
More and more archaeological finds reveal a complex picture of how and when people first arrived in North America.
Homo sapiens is currently the only member of the genus Homo alive. There’s only one species of human—but it wasn’t always so.
Across time and around the world, many ancient monuments were built as calendars to track the sun’s journey.
A Neanderthal expert weighs in on a new theory that proposes a swap in the planet’s poles triggered a climate catastrophe that killed off our evolutionary cousins.
The Human Genome Project first published the modern human genome 20 years ago, and the Neanderthal genome was sequenced a little more than a decade ago. What do these maps mean for our understanding of humanity?