We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

How did life begin? An international team of researchers from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany suggest that the answer ...

Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet tall, earning them the nickname "hobbits." Now a new study suggests ...

Human figures in 'Stone Hills,' where the Bible's Abraham settled, attest to the start of human settlements 11,000 years ago: ...

WASHINGTON — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname “hobbits.” ...

There were giants in the earth in those days.—Genesis, VI, 4. Genesis and many a folk tale notwithstanding, most anthropologists have pictured primitive man as a little fellow somewhere between an ape ...

In order for life to emerge both peptides and nucleic acids must have appeared under “prebiotic” conditions. Despite numerous efforts, the formation of these macromolecules without the help of modern ...

THE GOLDEN ROOMS—Vardis Fisher—Vanguard ($2.50). The golden rooms were the firelit caves of men in the vast darkness of prehistoric night. When Harg discovered that by rubbing two sticks together he ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...

Human beings are born with innate reflexes that come from deep within our primitive brain. As the prefrontal cortex develops within the first year of life these reflexes disappear from the central ...