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

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

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

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

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

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

Scientists say humans' fondness for alcohol traces back to primate ancestors who sought fermented fruits, shaping both ...

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.

Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient humans ...

It's tempting to think that we've reached the pinnacle of our evolution, but modern life continues to shape us just as much ...