Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

Hidden nearby, paleontologists have now stumbled upon the teeth of another Homo species, dating back 2.59 million years, as well as teeth of an australopithecine from 2.63 million years ago – the only ...

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare ...

Paleoanthropologists identified the early human based on molars that are several million years old.

Categorising the Denisovans as a distinct species would allow us to more comprehensively trace our own evolutionary development ...

Not only did the two interbreed; the resulting hybrid offspring were functional enough to be integrated into human society. Some of these hybrids survived to have ... this thing of venturing out on ...

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest extinct relatives.

Diseases started jumping from animals to humans at least 6,500 years ago, researchers found in a new study of ancient DNA. After analyzing ancient DNA from 1,313 prehistoric humans from Europe and ...

The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported ...