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

New research on ancient teeth from China suggests humans and Homo erectus interbreeding shaped early Asian populations.

New stone tool discovery on Sulawesi shows early humans reached the island over 1 million years ago, long before modern ...

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

Progressive aridification in East Africa over the last half million years and implications for human evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018; 201801357 DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

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 ...

We have evidence of the first sporadic use of fire, with discolored sediments found in Koobi Fora, Kenya. An often overlooked factor that likely greatly influenced human evolution is that our ...

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 ...

A cranium of a four-million-year-old fossil, that, in 1995 was described as the oldest evidence of human evolution in South Africa, has shown similarities to that of our own, when scanned through ...

Evidence for the controlled use of fire is rather sketchy prior to one million years ago. Well before this time, human ancestors such as Homo erectus, whose brain size fits between ourselves and ...