Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

Let’s dig deep into a few misconceptions about early humans, from their supposed stupidity ... development in late Stone Age ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

A recent study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology suggests that for 2 million years, Homo sapiens and ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

The Levant, encompassing modern-day Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian territories, was a cultural crossroads during the Middle Paleolithic period. Both groups of hominins arrived at similar ...

Paranthropus boisei and Homo erectus - shared the same landscape, literally crossing paths. The discovery raises intriguing ...