Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor, perhaps as recently as 5 to 10 million years ago. At some stage the hominids split ...

It there was such a community of origin among men ... we go in our studies of archaeology the more distinct do the human races become." Prof. Agassiz has been bearding the lion in his den ...

One counterintuitive strain of thought has treated this decision as “the worst mistake in the history of the human race,” as the popular author Jared Diamond once put it. The argument largely ...

but it argues that this origin predates a hypothetical mitochondrial Eve, occurring approximately 1.7 million years ago. After that, multiple migrations out of Africa occurred, but the human race ...

Studying the history of the human race also means asking myself who I am. —The Asahi Shimbun, Jan. 6 Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a popular daily column that takes up a wide range of topics ...