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

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

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

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

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

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

Discovery in Suffolk dates back 400,000 years, pushing timeline for controlled fire-making back by at least 360,000 years - ...

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.

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

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

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

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...