A new study of two-million-year-old tooth enamel has revealed surprising genetic diversity in Paranthropus robustus, a distant upright-walking relative of early humans. Using paleoproteomics—the ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal's maiden six-wicket for India as the hosts beat England by 75 runs in the third and final Twenty20 International ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Zambia have been found to have developed the “seemingly pointless” behavior of dangling blades ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

Analysis - The human body is a machine whose many parts - from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain - have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion ...

Our species first evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago. While prior fossil finds show some groups made early forays outside the continent, lasting human settlements in other parts of the world ...

Nonetheless, there is enough consensus to thread the story of human evolution all the way from early apes to modern humanity.

Researchers reveal how past climate shifts and vegetation changes drove the evolution and migration of early human species during the Pleistocene.