They say the first storyteller lived between 200,000 and 700,000 years ago among the species of human known as homo ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...

In 1911, an extraordinary archaeological discovery was made in the small coastal town of Clacton-on-Sea (Essex, England). Samuel Hazzledine Warren, an amateur prehistorian who had been searching for ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

Reconstruction of a Homo heidelbergensis in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Credit: Ryan Somma / Flickr Additionally, researchers suggest it could have been made with a curved flint tool, ...

On an un-named headland above a beach on the Cape south coast we find tracks everywhere, but will we find the holy grail of our adventure: human footprints? It’s time to pack and decamp.

A NEW species of human with bigger brains and heads has been unearthed, claim Chinese archaeologists. Researchers alleged ...