Human delivers an unusually clear picture of Homo sapiens as a species shaped by climate, animals, plants, other hominins and ...

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Ethiopian fossils uncover new species in human lineage as researchers discover Australopithecus teeth coexisting with early ...

Countless species lived and vanished before Homo sapiens appeared. From colossal predators to strange giants, these are the ...

Research led by Institut de Paléontologie Humaine is providing a finite minimum age for a nearly complete cranium from Petralona Cave in Greece that has perplexed researchers since its discovery in ...

A new study dates Greece’s Petralona Cave skull to as much as 500,000 years, offering fresh insight into early human evolution in Europe.

Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological site, have revealed ...

From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved ...

It was the telegram exchange that sparked an identity crisis for humankind. In 1960 a young Jane Goodall working in a remote ...

Sydney Lohmann moved to Manchester from Germany this summer - and she has the perfect ice-breaker to make friends in her new ...