From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Learn more about the creation of fire, and how new artifacts show that fire was used tens of thousands of years earlier than ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

With an opposable big toe resembling a human thumb, the fossilized Burtele foot suggested its owner was a skilled climber, ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...