On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

Too often, in popular media, primitive humans have been depicted as unintelligent and brutish. We use them to highlight our own superiority, or to sell car insurance. Then we got The Croods (now ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The earliest-known human ancestors to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who studied remains dug up ...

They look like simple stones, but they were state of the art tools millions of years ago, made with great skill and precison [David Braun] The very first humans millions of years ago may have been ...

It's an interesting question. Humans managed to kill much of the large megafauna outside of Africa long before the Industrial Revolution (or, say, farming). I'm actually pretty optimistic about the ...

Human beings are born with innate reflexes that come from deep within our primitive brain. As the prefrontal cortex develops within the first year of life these reflexes disappear from the central ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The earliest-known human ancestors to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who studied remains dug up ...