For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. In The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession With Human Origins, the intellectual historian Stefanos Geroulanos, ...