How did humans evolve?
About 6 to 8 million years ago, deep in the rainforests of Africa, humans shared a distant ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos. A lot has happened since then. We came…
The earliest modern humans mastered bow hunting 54,000 years ago
Based on research in France’s Mandrin Cave, in February 2022 we published a study in the journal Scientific progress which dismisses the earliest evidence of the former’s arrival Homo sapiens…
23,000-year-old teeth fill ice age gap
23,000-year-old teeth fill ice age gap , For many years, the Malalmuerzo (“bad lunch”) cave near Granada, Spain, located near rocky farmland, was open to the public. Locals ducked under…
Humans and our anxious fear of robots
I was standing in line for a tourist attraction in Tokyo when a small robot started addressing the crowd. The robot looked like Rosie from The Jetsons and was meant…
How similar are humans and apes?
As much as we like to think of ourselves as superior, humans are animals. We descend from a common human ancestor shared with what became chimpanzees and bonobos 6 to…