The world’s oldest cave painting was just discovered — and it could rewrite the origins of human history

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...
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Scientists uncover 60,000-year-old find that rewrites human origin story

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...
Live Science

'It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens': How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our species

As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...
Smithsonian Magazine

15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...
Forbes

From Gods To Code: A Brief History Of Human Meaning

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the psychology of leadership, tech and entrepreneurship. While the human quest of meaning is perennial, the answers ...
Scientific American

Humanity’s Origins Paint Our Ancestors as Lovers, Not Fighters

At the heart of scientific questions about the origins of humanity lie questions of human nature. Are Homo sapiens intrinsically lovers or fighters, predators or prey, lucky survivors or inevitable ...
Men's Journal

Study Finds the Strange Origin of Human Teeth—And It’s Not the Mouth

The next time you wince from an ice-cold drink or a too-hot slice of pizza, blame your ancestors. Specifically, the armor-plated fish that swam Earth’s oceans over 460 million years ago. A new study ...