They weren’t cave-brutes. They were strategists. Homo heidelbergensis hunted large game in coordinated groups, used hafted ...

It's easy to get lost in science fiction when you think about how people will look in the far future, but the question has real scientific roots. Body.

A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, cemented in place by mineral deposits, it launched a scientific mystery that would ...

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

RABAT — A newly announced fossil discovery is further cementing Morocco’s central place in the prehistory of humanity. On Jan. 7, Moroccan and international researchers revealed the unearthing of ...