Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Beyond mere biological evolution, the story of our species is filled with cultural and technological revolutions that have ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

The Levant, encompassing modern-day Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian territories, was a cultural crossroads during the Middle Paleolithic period. Both groups of hominins arrived at similar ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies with distinct features that challenge predictions made by the ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

These early forerunners of Homo sapiens wandered in a landscape teeming with wildlife, including giant maribou storks that stood 2 meters (6.5 feet) tall. A stunning discovery of fossilized ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...