Recent fossil discoveries in China, from the Harbin 'Dragon Man' skull to the million-year-old Yunxian crania, are transforming our understanding of human evolution. These finds reveal confirmed ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

They might just rewrite the history of human migration.

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity on a humble field in Barnham in the U.K. county of Suffolk. According to Chris Stringer of ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibres, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...