Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

Did modern humans erase Neanderthals, or did our close cousins fade away for reasons that had little to do with us? A pair of major papers in Science and Nature on Dec. 12, 2024, sharpen that question ...

Archaeologists found 120,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life ...

Brain size can matter across the broad sweep of primate evolution but among humans isn't the best way to estimate ...

Photo provided to China Daily] High on a cliff in Lushan county of Pingdingshan city, Central China's Henan province, a small ...

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