New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought.

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

Learn how a new analysis challenges the traditional classifications for ‘Little Foot,’ a famous fossil hominin from South ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

And something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” Bob Dylan wrote that in 1965 about a man watching the world slip out of his grasp. The strange thing is how well it ...

CEO Elon Musk has built a reputation for framing technological progress in long time horizons, often emphasizing structural ...