Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

An Oxford academic has theorized about what might happen if humans were to go extinct and reveals which species could take ...

Published in the Journal of Astrobiology, the paper does not argue that there was a technologically advanced species long ...

But is it really unprecedented? In a series of five programmes, Justin Rowlatt explores the geochemical history of life on Earth, and discovers how humans are just the latest species to suddenly ...

Lorna Simpson encountered this book several years ago and has since remained curious about the stuff-of-legends yet ...

This is what will need to be proven to declare a new epoch. Humans have been around for such a short period relative to Earth's history that it may be too soon to tell whether our impact will be ...

Book jacket: Plagues Upon the Earth by Kyle Harper (Princeton University ... turns up again and again throughout the book (and human history). Chapter 6 goes on to detail how human society was ...

Humans have influenced the planet like no other species. The impact we've made on Earth is undeniable. But have you ever imagined what would change if we suddenly disappeared from the Earth's surface?