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

An early human species dubbed "hobbits" for their diminutive size vanished from the world about 50,000 years ago - and now, we might finally know why. Researchers from the University of Wollongong ...

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.

New research shatters the myth of the meat-hungry caveman, revealing a hidden chapter in human evolution. Long before farming ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery beneath the waters off Java, Indonesia, is reshaping long-held ideas about early human ...

A new study explores how ancient southern African populations, isolated for nearly 100,000 years, developed distinct genetic ...

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

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

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

I don’t know what our prehistoric ancestors went through to embed a visceral reaction to free stuff in all of us.