Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

A team of archaeologists say that artifacts found in England push back the earliest known date of hominids making fire some ...

The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...

R esearchers have found proof of human-made fire dating back 400,000 years—that's 350,000 years earlier than any previously ...

The human evolutionary tree can be complicated—but understanding where hominids end and hominins begin reveals how we fit into the broader family of primates. This episode breaks down the distinctions ...

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