New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that ...

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers found burned bones deep inside the cave, where natural wildfires ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 300,000 years has revealed a lost chapter in human history.

Several significant milestones in human evolution date to the period between 70,000 and 12,000 years ago, including the replacement of archaic humans, the global dispersal of Homo sapiens and the ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in ...

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