Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

A new AI study finds leopards hunted early humans in East Africa, challenging long-held ideas about when our ancestors became ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Language has enabled humans to innovate, communicate, and thrive globally, with over 7,000 languages spoken today and ...

New evidence from South China reveals how early humans adapted to environmental transformations during the Late Pleistocene.

Humans stand out among mammals for our ability to run long distances without falling apart. That ability links back to early ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

An Unseen Threat Picture this: you're walking down a dimly lit street at night, and every shadow seems to move. Your heart rate quickens, your muscles tense, and suddenly you're scanning every corner ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say.

In our modern society, aging tends to be something we ignore, and then try to avoid. Mainstream culture is geared toward the ...