At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

We humans like to think we’re special in basically all ways, but if the history of life is any indication, our species has a ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago?