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Forget Survival Of The Fittest. Humans Conquered Our Planet By Sharing Ideas. In A Nutshell Humans spread across nearly every habitat on Earth in around 300,000 years, a feat that biology alone would ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Think about this: Before the advent of agriculture (a mere 10,000 years ago, which is a blink of an eye in an evolutionary timescale), all humans were nomadic. They lived primarily outside. They moved ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...