Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Analysis - Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in ...

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

The goal is to see if computer-generated suggestions are consistent with how humans think. In practice, we wanted to compare human annotations with those suggested by the computer. The human ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...