Dr. Baumann and his colleagues hypothesize that ancient humans may have hunted and killed more animals than they could ...

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...

Researchers have found evidence that early humans arrived in Europe half a million years earlier than previously thought at a ...

Research reveals new evidence of early hominin activity in Europe, suggesting that hominins were present on the continent far earlier than previously thought.

The journey of human ancestors from Africa to other parts of the world has long fascinated scientists. Recent evidence from ...

The capacity might explain how Homo erectus conquered Eurasia, but deepens the mystery about what took our own species so ...

Ancient DNA Brings to Life History of the Iconic Aurochs ... the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating ...

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher ... Using biogeochemical analyses, chronometric dating, ...

A longstanding question about the history of humanity has been answered, researchers announced Thursday. More than a million years ago, long before our species Homo sapiens emerged, early humans ...