The oldest known deliberately made stone tools were discovered at Lomekwi 3 in West Turkana, Kenya, and date to about 3.3 ...

Homo habilis sits near the base of the Homo genus, though its exact classification and relationship to Homo erectus remain debated. Fossils from Olduvai Gorge and other East African sites show a small ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground plants—foods rich in energy but hard to chew. A new study reveals that this ...

Scientists have extracted and analyzed the first-ever ancient proteins from the fossils of Homo naledi, revealing a potential all-female burial site. The study, published in the journal Cell, raises ...

Humanlike fossils have emerged from the deep and twisting caverns of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa over the past decade — and what they have revealed has rocked the field of human ...

Modern map apps do much more than get you from point A to point B, with everything from traffic light locations to AI-powered route planning. I tested Google Maps and Apple Maps to find the better ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes. Researchers have excavated hundreds of Homo naledi bones from the cave system known as ...

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