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 ...

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

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

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

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 ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...

Recent advances in ancient DNA analysis have sparked intriguing discussions about the possibility of non-human entities once ruling the Earth. While such claims challenge the boundaries of ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

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

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering ...