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In his new book Tribe of Mentors, Timothy Ferriss puts together life advice from talented achievers from various fields

While brain size in Homo sapiens remained largely unchanged over time, the shape gradually became more rounded until achieving its current form, say scientists

A partial jawbone bearing seven teeth unearthed in a cave in Israel represents what scientists are calling the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains outside Africa

Scientists says Homo sapiens emerged on the Africa following millions of years of human evolution, including a split 600,000 to 700,000 years ago from the lineage that led to the now-extinct Neanderthals

Scientists say a certain level of lethal violence in humans arises from the occupation of a position within a particularly violent mammalian clade

Scientists detect residual DNA from Homo sapiens, a sign of inter-species mating, from genome of a Neanderthal woman whose remains were found in a Altai Mountains cave

The discovery of 80,000 and 120,000 years old teeth from China's Fuyan Cave site provides the earliest evidence of fully modern humans outside Africa

Scientists extract an unprecedented amount of 6 to 9% of Neanderthals genome from a jawbone claimed to be the oldest modern human found in Europe

This panoramic view of human evolution is full of polemics and puzzling revelations

Earlier this week two news stories reminded us of the retrograde tendencies of human progress