A comparison with the environmental settings and biological adaptations of nearly 6,000 terrestrial mammalian species demonstrates the profound advantages of human cultural adaptations.

Our two main theories of human behavior do a poor job of explaining how humans change to meet the demands of varied environments. One theory -cultural determinism – mostly denies that this happens.

New evidence from South China reveals how early humans adapted to environmental transformations during the Late Pleistocene. Using pollen, isotopic, and published lithic evidence from the Sandinggai ...

An open-air site in Austria occupied by humans during the coldest part of the last glacial period may have been dedicated to hunting reindeer for pelts, showing how people adapted to extreme ...