Genomes chart the history of Neanderthal-modern human interactions

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...
STAT

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for research into the evolutionary history of humankind

A Swedish scientist won the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology on Monday for his groundbreaking research into the evolutionary history of humankind. Svante Pääbo, of the Max Planck Institute ...
Psychology Today

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

I recently finished listening to the CD version of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by the historian Yuval Noah Harari, and beautifully narrated by Derek Perkins. Sapiens is a wonderful book that ...
insider.si.edu

Sapiens : a brief history of humankind / Yuval Noah Harari ; translated by the author, with the help of John Purcell and Haim Watzman ; maps by Neil Gower

Translation of: Kitsur toldot ha-enoshut. 2011. "First published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 by Kinneret, Mora-Bitan, Dvir."--Title page verso. "Previously published in a slightly different form in ...
The Atlantic

Why the Age of American Progress Ended

If you were, for whatever macabre reason, seeking the most catastrophic moment in the history of humankind, you might well settle on this: About 10,000 years ago, as people first began to domesticate ...
NPR

Natural History Museum vows better stewardship of human bones

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 ...