Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

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

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

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...