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

A new site in one of the most important basins for humanity’s evolution has provided evidence of occupation over an ...

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 ...

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, ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus ...