In the early days of human history — over 300,000 years ago — Homo sapiens shared the Earth with several other human species, which Kennedy aptly compares to the different races of Middle-earth in the ...

The flood of new insights is not only radically changing the understanding of our origins; it is challenging the very notion of what it means to be human. Paleoanthropologist Fabrice Demeter ...

Such values and meanings are of the personal order and determine from the moral point of view the meaning and limits of artificial interventions on procreation and on the origin of human life.

The Altay Prefecture, located in the northern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has long been celebrated as the origin of human skiing. On Thursday, it adds another feather to its cap ...