A study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins vastly distorts the scientific evidence on human evolution, ...

Human ancestors ate small children 850,000 years ago, a gruesome discovery has suggesed. Archaeologists were working at the ...

A new study finds early humans ate tough grasses and tubers long before their teeth adapted, suggesting behavior, not biology, drove human evolution.

A Dartmouth-led study shows that early humans developed a taste for grassy carbohydrate-rich plants 700,000 years before they ...

Homo erectus marked a significant shift in human evolution —they were the earliest hominids to bear more of a resemblance to modern humans, with larger bodies, longer legs, and shorter arms relative ...

In a translated statement from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, an international team of researchers said that analysis of 63 human bone fragments—including ...

Scientists have unveiled the first evidence that early humans co-existed in Africa 300,000 years ago with a small-brained human-like species thought to already be extinct on the continent at that ...

Oldest evidence of human activity unearthed in African cave The cave had been occupied for nearly two million years up until the early 1900s — intriguing researchers about its value By Samantha Pope ...

This 2005 photo provided by the journal Science shows a pre-human skull found in the ground at the medieval village Dmanisi, Georgia. The discovery of the estimated 1.8-million-year-old skull of a ...

While cave paintings have long been cited as early evidence of human art, Canadian anthropologists believe that abstract signs and symbols in European caves may represent "the first glimmers of ...