Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

More than 1.2 million years ago, our ancestors Homo erectus developed the tools and intellectual capacity to survive in very ...

Explore the remarkable survival strategies of Homo erectus in extreme desert conditions. Discover how they thrived in harsh ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

A study published in the Journal of Human Evolution found that chimpanzees select harder stones for nut-cracking tasks, ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

New insights were made on early human relatives ... one of the most famous fossil finds in the history of human evolution. When you’re not feeling well, maybe you reach for some medicine ...

An international study reveals how early humans, as far back as 1.5 million years ago, deliberately selected specific stones ...