The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

The study, published in the journal Nature, is based on a years-long examination of a reddish patch of sediment excavated at ...

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

New research by English archaeologists presents strong evidence for the earliest known use of fire by ancient humans.

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

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 ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

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.

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