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

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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