With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, did not engage in mass hunting but preferred selective and strategic hunting ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones - which is crucial for ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones — which is crucial for ...

Sundaland was a vast Southeast Asian landmass that existed for most of the last 2 million years, exposed during glacial ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

Researchers identified a repeatedly used campfire including heated clay, heat-shattered flint handaxes and iron pyrite ...

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after declining rainfall levels forced them to compete with modern humans, among ...