Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

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Researchers discovered tools dating as far back as 11,500 years. The tools could be evidence of the earliest human settlement ...

This discovery establishes the third place that the enigmatic ancient humans first identified ... the security personnel “a very short human evolution lesson.” Before testing the jawbone ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

An analysis of a jawbone found off the Taiwanese coast reveals it belonged to a Denisovan, a mysterious human species that contributed some genetic material to Indigenous Australians and people living ...

Understanding human evolution often involves looking closely at our DNA. Yet obtaining ancient DNA from fossils older than 300,000 years—especially from Africa—is incredibly challenging.