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

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 ...

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 ...

Previously thought to be an exclusively human skill, knowing when a friend could use a clue appears to be a talent we share with our primate cousins.

Researchers Stunned as New Fossil Discovery Pushes the Date of Presence of Hominins by Half a Million Years A new study ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.