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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...