Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that ...

Ancient DNA reveals women brought farming knowledge to hunter-gatherer communities in Belgium and Netherlands gradually.

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, ...

They didn’t get the message. They won’t bow down. About 2,600 years ago, King Nebuchadnezzar erected a 90-foot-tall image of ...

Indigenous people of the Andes were the first to domesticate the potato, making the starch-rich crop a dietary staple for this high-altitude population long before it spread to the rest of the world.

Stromatolites might look like rocks. But they are living relics of ancient systems that thrived on Earth billions of years ...