Neanderthals may have been far more like us than once believed. A new review of genetic, archaeological, and fossil evidence ...

Many people are overwhelmed by the fast-paced evolution of mass communication in a world increasingly shaped by the internet ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Modern human origins : narrow focus or broad spectrum? / C. Loring Brace -- What does it mean to be modern? / Milford H. Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari -- Systematics in anthropology : where science ...