A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

A study published in the Journal of Human Evolution found that chimpanzees select harder stones for nut-cracking tasks, ...

A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating ...

An international study reveals how early humans, as far back as 1.5 million years ago, deliberately selected specific stones ...

Research uncovers early humans' reliance on plant-based foods, revealing ancient tools and 780,000-year-old starch grains.

A new archaeological study, conducted along the Jordan River banks south of northern Israel’s Hula Valley, offers a fresh ...

This is still a commonly used depiction of human evolution, with the famous Progress diagram having been published in a book called "Early Man" in 1965 explaining how we grew from apes to modern ...

New insights were made on early human relatives ... one of the most famous fossil finds in the history of human evolution. When you’re not feeling well, maybe you reach for some medicine ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of Australopithecus afarensis, the early human ancestor famously represented by ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner Two studies came to a similar conclusion ...

"The facial structure and mandible show early evolution toward modern humans, including a flat face, high eye sockets, slender skull, and a jawbone that displays the early development of a chin ...