Recent excavations in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley uncovered an archaeological site dating back as far as 150,000 years, ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.

New data is revealing deeper insights into how early humans interbred with Denisovans in events that significantly shaped our ...

Considering how long humans have been on Earth, it’s surprising that we have been scientifically studying our evolution for only 200 years. But in that short time, we’ve discovered about two ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

In an important discovery, archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the National Academy of Sciences of ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered 12,000-year-old round stones with holes, potentially revealing the wheel's origins.

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch. By Carl Zimmer As soon as you put starch in your mouth ...