Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans are exceptionally diverse, but we all have something in common: We're Homo sapiens, and we share a common ancestor. But the ...

The human hand is an evolutionary marvel. While other primates rely on their hands for locomotion and basic grasping, ours ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

Editor’s note: As part of our Juneteenth coverage, Cog interviewed Dawn Meredith Simmons and Maurice Emmanuel Parent, co-founders and co-producing artistic directors of The Front Porch Arts Collective ...

Dinosaurs so thoroughly dominated the ancient world that they suppressed the evolutionary possibilities open for mammals. This notion has been around for decades now, and it seems to be backed up by ...

"We don’t have to just live with the memories of our ancestors," writes author Beronda L. Montgomery. "We can physically experience the same trees they did." I’ve had many memorable encounters with ...

New analysis of a tool that dates back 300,000 years has revealed that our ancestors were skilled woodworkers that crafted useful hunting weapons, taking into account comfort, efficiency and longevity ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Imagine that you are a time-traveler, able to travel back roughly 40,000 years to the age of the first anatomically modern homo sapiens. Imagine stepping out of your time machine and standing face to ...

Africatown’s sixth annual Spirit of our Ancestors Festival has begun, with a variety of events celebrating the legacy of the community founded by survivors of the slave ship Clotilda. Presented by the ...

Lately it feels like ancestors are talking to me all the time. I think this is good news. For most of my life I have been told what my ancestors have done so that I might live, so that I may ...