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In the summer of 1856, laborers at a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf were clearing mud and chert out of a cave when they turned up a fossilized skull. It was long and elliptical, with wide sinuses ...

A sallow light rises over the land at the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the most celebrated movies of the 20th century. Stanley Kubrick’s shot pulls in on a band of furry man-apes gathering ...

The big thinkers at Aperture condense the history of humanity into ten concise minutes. Venezuelan VP demands US free Maduro ...

EXCLUSIVE: Karga Seven Pictures, the Turkish-American producer backed by Peter Chernin‘s North Road Company, has acquired Simon Sebag Montefiore’s book The World: A Family History Of Humanity. Karga ...

Kurzgesagt, which explains various scientific topics through animation, has released a movie that explains the history of mankind over 200,000 years in about an hour. Kurzgesagt begins its film about ...

The American Museum of Natural History says it plans to improve its handling of thousands of human remains. A recent investigation found that the New York institution has not been proactive in sharing ...

Up until recently, the consensus was that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were separate species. But most humans carry about 2% of Neanderthal DNA, challenging the view that we are different. Other ...