What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories ...

The remains of at least 16 individuals, including children, have been discovered in a cave in eastern China, and are believed ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

Two species of ancient humans walked beside each other 1.5 million years ago, fossil footprints have revealed.

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...

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

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

Researchers believe that the extinct human species lived in small groups, which might have made them susceptible to ...

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