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

An IISc study found that rural homes built in local styles run 7 to 10 per cent cooler than the cement-block houses replacing ...

For decades, the story of Homo sapiens has been told as a linear process, with a more or less localised origin and a ...

Fossils and genetic evidence reveal that human evolution was not a simple replacement of one species by another. Studies of ...

The Harbin cranium, known as Dragon Man, is one of the most complete ancient skulls ever found and may represent a newly ...

The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

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

Researchers identified a repeatedly used campfire including heated clay, heat-shattered flint handaxes and iron pyrite ...

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

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

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