In a new study, scientists have been able to use peptides taken from an ancient hominin to determine its sex – and at 3.5 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered 1.5-million-year-old tools in an ancient lakebed, revealing that early humans may have been ...

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

There is mounting evidence indicating that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary origins and not just a ...

A research team, led by Ohio University’s Sabrina Curran, has discovered evidence that human ancestors arrived in Europe ...

A newly classified Paranthropus species, P. capensis, has been identified from a 1.4 million-year-old jawbone.

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...