A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in human evolution—brain growth and the reduction in the size of the face and ...

While doing fieldwork on Indonesia’s Flores Island in the early 2000s, anthropologist Gregory Forth, PhD, frequently spoke to the locals living in the mountains. They told him that they sometimes ...

For millennia, humans have told stories about stealing fire from the gods. In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus gifts fire to humanity after sneaking it away from the gods’ home on Mount Olympus.

Homo erectus emerged around 2 million years ago and survived until roughly 117,000 to 108,000 years ago, making it one of the longest-lived and most influential human species. Kayleigh covers its ...