How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era.

Now a new study in Nature led by Harvard scientists reveals two key genetic shifts that remodeled the pelvis to help human ancestors become the upright bipeds ...

Recent discoveries of fossilized footprints have provided intriguing evidence that suggests pre-human species were more ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...