Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

AMSTERDAM, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Kissing did not begin with star-crossed human lovers but with the primate ancestors of great apes around 20 million years ago, according to a study published on Wednesday ...

Stone tools found at Lomekwi in Kenya date to 3.3 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens or even Homo habilis existed. These crude but intentional tools suggest early human relatives developed ...

A newly analyzed site in northern Kenya is reshaping the story of early human technology. An international team reports more than 1,200 stone tools from three stacked layers that span roughly 300,000 ...

Why Did This Type of Stone Tool Endure for 300,000 Years in Kenya? Archaeological research from Kenya's Turkana Basin has uncovered evidence that early humans maintained a sophisticated stone ...

BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez and their colleagues think that scavenging for ...

Do science documentaries need a refresh? What if the goal wasn’t just teaching you something, but making you feel something? A new series from the BBC, airing on PBS, called “Human” tries to do just ...