The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

The Out of Africa theory describes how early human species evolved in Africa before migrating across Eurasia and beyond. This episode explains the multiple migration waves, the role of climate change, ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

She worried that she was inadequate at love, until she became a mother. By Sasha Weiss ...

Different cultures and mythologies have crafted unique stories about the very first woman - how she came into being, what she ...

The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...