Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

For years, the common belief among scientists was that human evolution had basically slowed to a crawl once we invented medicine, built cities and started farming our own food. If we could grow enough ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

Learn how a skull fragment from inland Spain is adding to evidence that human evolution in Europe followed no single path.

Some 4,000 years ago, as ancient civilizations such as the Minoans in Crete and the Neo-Sumerian Empire in Mesopotamia were shaping cultures in Europe and the Middle East, human biology itself was ...

The provenance of 3.4-million-year-old foot bones in Ethiopia may have finally been solved – and could prompt a rethink into how our various ancient human ancestors coexisted. In 2009, Yohannes ...

Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury. And a new study in Science shows meat has never been the main fuel source ...

A groundbreaking international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically ...