The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 150,000-year-old shelter in Tajikistan, offering new insights into human evolution.

An ASU evolutionary anthropologist offers a groundbreaking theory on why humans have come to dominate the world over other ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but in its "open-endedness." ...

Lucy, a fossilized skeleton unearthed 50 years ago this month, transformed scientists’ understanding of human evolution.

The emergence of new viruses is often unpredictable, jumping as they might from infecting one species to another. A November ...

A variety of researchers are converging on the view that human evolution has been shaped by gene–culture interactions. Theoretical biologists use models to demonstrate that cultural processes ...

Margaret Boone Rappaport, PhD, possesses a rich history in anthropology, health sciences and artificial intelligence ...

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we ...