For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

A crushed ancient skull may hold clues to the origins of ancient humans. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering ...