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.

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

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 ...

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.

With an opposable big toe resembling a human thumb, the fossilized Burtele foot suggested its owner was a skilled climber, researchers said.

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

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

In a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, scientists show that the SAMD9 and SAMD9L genes, key players in ...