Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

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 ...