Human history is often marked by unexpected feats of exploration that challenge long-held assumptions about our ancestors. Some of those ancestors were far more adventurous than they have been given ...

Human beings are born with innate reflexes that come from deep within our primitive brain. As the prefrontal cortex develops within the first year of life these reflexes disappear from the central ...

A million-year-old human skull suggests that the origins of modern humans may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that Homo sapiens first emerged outside ...