The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...

The Industrial Age enabled humans to expand so quickly, and one consequence is the climate catastrophe we’re living in today.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been part of my world for more than a decade. My early work in tech introduced me to both the potential and the problems that come with building systems designed to ...