The oldest-known human bones in Europe were just discovered in a cave in Bulgaria. The cave also contained ancient tools ...

hazel and yew were abundant in Europe's forests before modern humans arrived, strengthening the argument that ancient ... New Insights Into the Denisovans: New Hominin Group That Interbred With ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces and large noses, but the reason for this difference has eluded ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex story of connection, identity, and cultural exchange. Between 130,000 and ...

In Darwin's day, and for many decades afterwards, too few fossils had been found to solve the mystery of which came first ... to walking upright than a modern human, whose pelvis has to be ...