Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

New research reveals that early humans changed Europe’s landscapes long before farming began, using fire and hunting to alter ecosystems.

Ancient ankle bones of Ardipithecus ramidus reveal how early humans combined climbing and upright walking, reshaping the ...

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the study of the first humans on Earth, who lived approximately 2.75 ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

A crushed ancient skull may hold clues to the origins of ancient humans. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...