Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...
Recent fossil discoveries lend credence to the fascinating proposition that non-human species may have coexisted alongside our early human forebears. These unearthed remnants provide a glimpse into ...
For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...
On a small island in the Baltic Sea, a cache of ancient wolf bones is reshaping how I think about the earliest encounters between humans and large carnivores in northern Europe. The remains, recovered ...