Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

The land bridge, now submerged in the Aegean Sea, may have been a crucial migration route for both Homo sapiens and ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

This very lifestyle, of standing and walking on two legs unlike some of our primate predecessors, may have been key to supercharging the survival and reproductive advantage of our ancestral species.

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...