"There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona, told Live Science. "We have the first evidence of ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

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A groundbreaking discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveals that early hominins crossed treacherous seas over a ...

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

Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The host is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, and she travels to various ...

The 1.8-million-year-old jawbone, found in a site no bigger than two parking spots, upends the timeline of humans migrating ...

The Middle Pleistocene was a turning point for human adaptation in East Asia, as shifting climates reshaped landscapes and ...

A cat parasite in humans? Discover more about a cat parasite called toxoplasmosis and its complex life cycle that can infect ...

New study suggests homo habilis were not master predators and were hunted by leopards around 2 million years ago Homo habilis may not have been the "king" of the forest, according to a new study ...

Far in the rolling highlands of north China, a serene basin once held one of mankind’s best survival stories. The Nihewan ...

Archaeologists in Georgia have unearthed a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to an early species of human that they say will shed light on some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements on ...