Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date back to ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large ...

The ability to walk and run efficiently on two feet is a hallmark of human evolution. While modern humans and their Homo erectus ancestors, dating back around 2 million years, were adept at endurance ...

Now researchers can identify subtler changes over just hundreds of years, providing clues as to how people migrated and ...

Footprints from Kenya's Turkana Basin show that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived simultaneously 1.5 million years ...

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A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing said the group represented the earliest ancient human population found in East Asia in their evolution process towards Homo sapiens – today ...

The world's first scientific facial reconstruction case based on the "Yunxian Man" skull fossils dating back approximately 1 ...