Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins.

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces with broad noses and massive cheekbones, features often described as ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped ...

According to a recent study by archaeologists, it has been found that the early humans, who occupied the Indonesian island of Flores, were obliterated by climate change. The study was published ...

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...