Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Earliest evidence of human fire-making found at 400,000-year-old Suffolk site. Researchers led by the British Museum have uncovered what they believe is the earliest known evidence of humans making ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

The knowledge of how to make fire rather than relying on the exploitation of naturally occurring fire marked a key ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

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

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

LONDON — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a ...