They weigh just grams—yet they show that modern humans reached Eurasia 35,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about human evolution. Are humans still ...

We may be part of the same overarching group as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, but there are lots of things that set ...

We aren’t the only humans to have called Earth ‘home’; before us there were dozens of human species and like us they ...

Homo habilis appeared more than two million years ago and has traditionally been described as the earliest species in the Homo genus. Its name means handy or skillful, reflecting the stone tools found ...

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, ...

Prehistoric human relatives, nicknamed “hobbits” due to their short stature, may have been scavengers, rather than skilled hunters capable of taking down big game or building cooking fires, according ...

Revolutionary artificial intelligence analysis of ancient fossils has overturned long-standing assumptions about when humans first rose from prey to predator. Groundbreaking research led by Rice ...

For 60 years, the earliest known human species has also been one of the most mysterious. Homo habilis was added to our family tree in 1964. But it's long been unclear exactly what the ancient species, ...

In recent weeks, Google has been busy adding AI features to all of its most popular apps. Following Gmail and Chrome, Maps is now the latest service to get a Gemini makeover, with a redesign of the ...

Google Maps is one of the company’s core products, which means it hasn’t escaped the shift to Gemini. There will be more opportunities to converse with a robot in Google Maps starting today, but there ...