Human origins

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

Scientists working in the south of France have discovered a small Neanderthal cord fragment dating back to over…

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

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

Neanderthals living in Portugal during the last ice age consumed copious amounts of seafood, according to new…

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

Humans may have continued to thrive in spite of a supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago, according to a new study.…

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

New research suggests Homo erectus—the most successful hominin prior to the emergence of modern humans—reached…

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…

A comprehensive analysis of DNA from modern Melanesian people suggests an assortment of mutated genes inherited from…

For thousands of years, Siberia’s Denisova Cave was home to various bands of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern…

A pinky finger bone, some teeth, and a lower jaw. That’s all the physical evidence we have of the mysterious…

Very little is known about the Denisovans—a mysterious group of hominins that lived alongside early humans and…

The discovery of a nearly intact skull in Ethiopia is the first to show the facial characteristics of a critically…

A comprehensive re-analysis of a skull fragment found in a Greek cave back in the late 1970s suggests early modern…

Dental evidence suggests Neanderthals and modern humans diverged from a common ancestor around 800,000 years…

Humans evolved from a group of ape-like hominins known as Australopithecine, but scientists aren’t such which…