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

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre ...

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 ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

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 ...

It wasn’t that everyone thought Neanderthals were beastly, apelike people. We now know they were light-haired, barrel-chested and cultured. It wasn’t that everyone thought (mostly hairless) primitive ...

Archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found the small, chipped tools, used to cut little animals and carve rocks, under the soil in the region of Soppeng in South Sulawesi. Radioactive tracing ...

Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia's Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and Australia, the earliest known ...

[SOPPENG, Indonesia] Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, which they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and ...

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