The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Explore the fascinating world of early humans and their shared cultural practices 100,000 years ago in the Levant region.

Under the right conditions, genetic data retrieved from ancient human fossils can be a powerful tool to study similarities and differences separating human lineages and is complementary to classical ...

University of Tokyo researchers have investigated the origin and dispersal scenarios of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia. The ...

Modern-day humans, scientifically known as Homo sapiens, are the sole living members of the genus Homo. Our human ancestors ...

Humans have littered Earth with a mind-boggling array of objects that will last millions of years. From plastic bags to ...

Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Yet that moment is surprisingly hard to pin down. The problem, for once, isn’t a lack of fossils.

If this Africa-wide theory were true, then early humans must have figured out how to live in many environments beyond ...

These are humanity’s first knives, says the 48-year-old CSIC researcher. Until now, the oldest known bone tools were from ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...