Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...
In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...
Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...
This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...
The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...
Food processing has been a part of human adaptation since deep in the past. The softening and breaking down of food left its testimony on the human body. For example, the massive teeth of our early ...