The origin story of the human species is far from set in stone. But what is set in stone is the fossil evidence that scientists study as they piece together our origin story. National Geographic ...

I recently finished listening to the CD version of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by the historian Yuval Noah Harari, and beautifully narrated by Derek Perkins. Sapiens is a wonderful book that ...

Translation of: Kitsur toldot ha-enoshut. 2011. "First published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 by Kinneret, Mora-Bitan, Dvir."--Title page verso. "Previously published in a slightly different form in ...

An algorithm scanned 78 million genetic variants and found patterns that shouldn't exist. Most human DNA tells a familiar story—but some of it defies explanation. Researchers discovered genetic ...

What took so long for humans to appear on Earth? The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, and life began about 4 billion years ago, yet humans—the only intelligent, technological species we know of in the ...