Articles by

Bruce Bower

Stone Age humans or their relatives occasionally trekked through a green Arabia

Arabia, known today for its desert landscape, served as a “green turnstile” for migrating Stone Age members...

Ancient DNA shows the peopling of Southeast Asian islands was surprisingly complex

A young woman who lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi as early as around 7,300 years...

A 1,000-year-old grave may have held a powerful nonbinary person

For decades, a roughly 1,000-year-old grave in southern Finland has been thought to have held a powerful...

Psychology has struggled for a century to make sense of the mind

One of the most infamous psychology experiments ever conducted involved a carefully planned form of child abuse....

A skeleton from Peru vies for the title of oldest known shark attack victim

When news broke that the oldest known case of a person killed by a shark involved a...

‘Dragon Man’ skull may help oust Neandertals as our closest ancient relative

A fossil skull nicknamed “Dragon Man” has surfaced in China under mysterious circumstances, with big news for...

Israeli fossil finds reveal a new hominid group, Nesher Ramla Homo

Excavations in an Israeli sinkhole have unveiled a previously unknown Stone Age hominid group that contributed to...

New clues suggest people reached the Americas around 30,000 years ago

Humans may have inhabited what’s now southern Mexico surprisingly early, between 33,448 and 28,279 years ago, researchers...