Penguin Random House says first volume of 'Unstoppable Us' series, subtitled 'How Humans Took Over the World,' will come out on October 18

Researcher says 120,000-year-old remains are likely from 'some of the last survivors of a once very dominant group in the Middle East'

Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s wildly popular book on the origins and nature of humanity will be made accessible to readers who don't gravitate to science books

Discovery of fossils of cold-climate rodents alongside remains of region's 1st modern humans shows they arrived from hot cradle of Africa during Ice Age, but were able to adapt