Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the religious doctrine of ‘ensoulment’
Researchers’ findings suggest that they possessed advanced cognitive abilities, something usually associated with Homo sapiens
The metaverse may have expanded our choices, but who is in charge of it, and what is its real cost?
The Extinction Rebellion is rooted in the conviction that humanity has dug its own grave and has one foot dangling over the edge
South Africa’s Blombos cave is home to the earliest drawing by a human: a 73 000-year-old cross-hatched drawing on a silcrete flake.
We have been omnivores probably since the time of Lucy, our closest ancestor
Though most organisms thrive with small brains, or none at all, the human species opted for a different route
The belief that ancient Egyptians needed help from supernatural beings to built the Giza pyramids relies on racism and colonial attitudes
Volcanos and an asteroid released sulphates and carbon, which caused temperature change.
New research suggests Neanderthals were not as simple-minded as has been believed.
Researchers have revealed details of the recently discovered Homo naledi – a species with characteristics eerily similar to humans.
Several times in the past 10 years scientists have had to rewrite the textbooks on Neanderthals, the last species of human to go extinct.
Our ancestors made the evolutionary split with gorillas about 10-million years ago but we still share a remarkable number of genes with the great ape.
The first ancestor of modern humans to have mastered the art of cooking was likely homo erectus, which evolved around 1.9-million years ago.
Thirty-thousand years ago the human species had a senior moment. Numbers of adults reaching the age of 30 began to rise dramatically.
Anthropologists have uncovered footprints in Kenya dating back 1,5-million years, the oldest evidence tthat our ancestors walked like modern humans.
Sixty thousand years ago, a small group of African men and women took to the Red Sea in tiny boats and crossed the Mandab Strait to Asia.
