Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs.

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

The exact relationships between all these early human relatives are still a bit murky. It could be that H. erectus is ...

Researchers have unearthed the oldest known hand-held wooden tools ever found, and they are an extraordinary 4,30,000 years ...

Ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 genomes suggests human evolution accelerated after farming, cities, and the Bronze Age transformed Europe.

A new analysis of crystals that formed inside one of the bones shows that the site dates back to an ice age 146,000 years ago ...

The research team examined the possible origins of vision by looking back at one of humanity's earliest ancestors.