Macaques in Thailand produced stone flakes while cracking nuts—a finding that could change what we thought about human history.
Two hippo butchery sites and the largest hominin tooth ever found may change the story of the ‘Oldowan toolkit.’
Our extinct sister species was hunting and butchering big game, according to new research.
Pääbo’s 40-year career has yielded new technologies and a narrative of who we are as a species.
The new fossil suggests the Denisovans—a lost human species—could live in a wide range of habitats.
Untrained orangutans seemed to instinctively use a stone hammer and cutting implement, surprising researchers.
The revised estimate, based on nearby volcanic ash, fits in nicely with most models of modern human evolution.
Scientists are struggling to understand how the 250,000-year-old fossil ended up in such a remote, hard-to-reach part of the cave system.
Only time will tell if the new name will gain traction in the scientific community and if the reassigning of old fossils is currently warranted.
Sulawesi island has yielded many clues to our distant past, and now archaeologists can add a Pleistocene Homo sapiens fossil to the list.
Evidence from a Bulgarian cave suggests early humans in southeast Europe faced subarctic conditions for thousands of years.
A recent study found that acceptance of evolution among Americans has increased, even among religious fundamentalists.
The new research suggests Denisovans—a sister group to the Neanderthals—occupied the islands of southeast Asia prior to the arrival of modern humans.
Researchers found that people in the area didn’t mix with Neanderthals and suffered population bottlenecks due to a changing climate.
Ongoing research has given us a more nuanced portrait of our extinct relatives, barrel chests and all.
The rare bone carving was unearthed at a cave entrance in northern Germany.
The skull, hidden in a well for 85 years, only recently fell into the hands of scientists.
Researchers say the hominin has traits similar to both Neanderthals and modern humans.
In the early 1990s, a British anthropologist named Robin Dunbar argued that humans can’t handle more than 150 stable relationships based on the size of the human brain’s neocortex and observations of other primate groups socializing. Now, a team of researchers in Sweden say that number is bunk. The team argues that Dunbar’s number—really a…
Some 3.7 million years ago in what is now South Africa, a human relative straddled two evolutionary moments.
