Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

From lush forests to dry savannas, Earth’s climate transformed over millions of years, forcing early hominins to adapt, ...

It also shows that the trophic position of some of the earliest representatives of the genus Homo was not different from ...

The Wallacean Islands were a popular place for our ancient ancestors. And as it turns out, our ancient ancestors reached some of these islands, which extend between Asia and Australia, remarkably ...

Imagine walking miles and miles across dangerous terrain frequented by sabertoothed cats just to find the right rock. Around 2.6 million years ago, a group of early hominins in East Africa started to ...

Learn more about the archaeological discovery of an ancient elephant carcass surrounded by hundreds of butchery tools.

We already know that, at various points in our species' past, several hominin species were wandering around Africa. But now it turns out they may have been living very different lives. A team of ...

April 23 (UPI) --Early hominins had adopted a human-like gait prior to the emergence of the Homo genus, new research suggests. After analyzing a series of 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints, ...

Human Evolution 1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed Human Evolution 2.6 million-year-old ...

READER QUESTION: We now know from evolutionary science that humanity has existed in some form or another for around 2 million years or more. Homo sapiens are comparatively new on the block. There were ...