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

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

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

“Focus on twavel, welationships and twacking down dat waskily wabbit.” – Elmer Fudd reading his horoscope. I have decided to bone up on how the study of planetary cycles guide us towards a more ...

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

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

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

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

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

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...