Human history is often marked by unexpected feats of exploration that challenge long-held assumptions about our ancestors. Some of those ancestors were far more adventurous than they have been given ...

For years, scientists believed that Homo erectus was the first human species to venture out of Africa around 1.8 million years ago. However, a recent study of fossilized teeth from the Dmanisi site ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered that the size of our frontal lobes alone does not account for the superior cognitive abilities of humans. In a study released on May 13, 2013 in the Proceedings of the ...