Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

Beyond mere biological evolution, the story of our species is filled with cultural and technological revolutions that have ...

Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies with distinct features that challenge predictions made by the ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

The Levant, encompassing modern-day Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian territories, was a cultural crossroads during the Middle Paleolithic period. Both groups of hominins arrived at similar ...

Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...