Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to ...

The human race is even older than we thought, and a new discovery has changed everything we thought we knew about our species’ earliest days walking on Earth. A major discovery analysed in a new paper ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional ...

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been ...

US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to ...

Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people ...

Scientists have adapted cloning technology to create human eggs from skin cells and a donor egg, potentially opening a new ...

This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...