One of the most important controversies about human evolution and expansion is when and by what route the first hominids arrived in Europe from the African continent. Now, geological dating techniques ...

One of the most important controversies about human evolution and expansion is when and by what route the first hominids arrived in Europe from the African continent. Now, geological dating techniques ...

Learn how early humans evolved at a much faster rate than other apes, adapting larger brains as they developed new ways to socialize.

Reconstructions of human evolution are prone to simple, overly-tidy scenarios. Our ancestors, for example, stood on two legs to look over tall grass, or began to speak because, well, they finally had ...

A study quantifies for the first time the speed at which ape species have evolved, showing that the 'sapiens' skull and face ...

Stone tools are pictured at the site where archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found artefacts, which scientists say may be evidence of humans living there 1.5 million years ago, in Soppeng ...

Dazzling new scientific techniques are allowing anthropologists to track the movements and menus of extinct hominids through the seasons and years as they ate their way across the African landscape, ...

The discovery of a bizarre skull three years ago in Chad is leading scientists to believe the skull may have belonged to the common ancestor of all hominids. The findings of the French scientist who ...

Our ancestors were traveling up to 13 kilometers at least 2.6 million years ago What is clear is that “Nyayanga represents the oldest documented case of long-distance transportation of raw materials,” ...

INDONESIA: Australian scientists who found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 13,000 years ago on an Indonesian… INDONESIA: Australian scientists who found a new species of ...