Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when ...

A new radiocarbon reassessment has established that the so-called Lapedo child from central Portugal was buried approximately ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 476,000-year-old wooden structure near Kalambo Falls in Zambia, making it the oldest known timber construction on Earth. The discovery predates Homo sapiens and ...

Humans have been missing the mark since the beginning of their evolution, and the key to remedying this is to recognize the ...

The bony facial protrusion might be an evolutionary byproduct that resulted from changes to other parts of the skull, according to a new study ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull,” University of Buffalo biological ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. A new study challenges the notion that ...

Nearly half a million years ago - far earlier than researchers once believed - early humans were already building wooden structures.