human evolution

In the early 1990s, a British anthropologist named Robin Dunbar argued that humans can’t handle more than 150 stable…

The fossilized shoulder joint of an early hominin named “Little Foot” suggests the upright-walking species was also…

Humans can be distinguished from other apes in many ways, such as our general hairlessness, our upright bipedalism,…

Anthropologists know of at least two ancient species of tiny humans that lived on the islands of southeast Asia over…

More than 1 million years before the early hominin known as Lucy was striding across the Afar region of Ethiopia,…

The Neanderthal of popular imagination is a hideous, ape-like being, lumbering around with his or her crude spear.…

Around 50,000 years ago, a bunch of Neanderthals made a home—and a bathroom—out of what is now a rocky escarpment…

Prehistoric teeth found over 100 years ago are some of the best evidence yet for hybridized communities of…

Ancient bow-and-arrow technology dating back some 48,000 years has been discovered in a Sri Lankan cave, making it…

As I write this, I realize that most of you are probably staying at home, like me. First of all, hang in here. This…

A partial skull found in South Africa suggests Homo erectus—an ancestral human species—appeared 100,000 years…

The famous 3.2-million-year-old Lucy specimen has captivated scientists since it was discovered in 1974. Lucy was a…

Human evolution was messy, with multiple human species living and interbreeding at the same time, in a convoluted…

Archaeologists in Ethiopia have uncovered skull fragments and tools belonging to Homo erectus, one of the most…

Before we became the only remaining humans on the planet, Homo sapiens mated with Neanderthals and the closely…

We’re all a little Neanderthal. That’s the conclusion of a study that used a new statistical technique to revise…

New evidence suggests Neanderthals gathered clam shells and volcanic rock from the bottom of the Mediterranean,…

Using modern dating techniques, scientists have dramatically narrowed the age of Homo erectus fossils found in Java…

A new paper claiming that modern humans originated in northern Botswana some 200,000 years ago is being criticized…

Unlike humans living today, our distant ancestors exerted a very small footprint on the planet, leaving barely…