The article ‘ A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date ’ by Amélie Beaudet and Dominic Stratford was originally published on The Conversation and has been ...

Unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points have been identified from their impact traces in the oldest occupation layers of the Obi-Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago.

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

When the two species got together tens of thousands of years ago, the hookups may have often involved a male Neanderthal and a female human, according to a new study. The findings, described February ...

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Humans are everywhere. How did we get from the savannahs of Africa across to the most northern reaches of Alaska and Greenland, to the outbacks of Australia and the islands of the Pacific millennia ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mandible of an archaic human who lived about 773 000 years ago is pictured after being excavated at a cave called Grotte a ...

Homo sapiens began as a small population vulnerable to predators, climate shifts, and stronger rival species. Yet through cooperation, creativity, and communication, they developed tools, strategies, ...

Leading Spanish indie distributor A Contracorriente Films has acquired “Homo Sapiens?” (“Homo Argentum”), the black-comedy anthology from Argentina’s Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn (“Official ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient. When reconstructed, the more ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. BBC’s five-part series “Human” premieres Wednesday as part of the PBS series “Nova,” following paleoanthropologist ...