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

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

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

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

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

Complex geodynamic forces along the Eurasian and African faults are slowly tumbling the Iberian Peninsula toward the ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit" thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

New evidence in England suggests that Neanderthals lit and controlled fires long before the first recorded use of controlled ...

AI is a bubble, they say. However, I say it is not. Maybe there is a bust to come, but I believe we are firmly in the boom ...

In a discovery that promises to reshape our understanding of early human life, archaeologists in England have unearthed 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 ...