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 ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...

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

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

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

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

Two small genetic changes reshaped the human pelvis, setting our early ancestors on the path to upright walking, scientists say.