Having movable eyebrows – and evolving beyond the Neanderthal ridge – may have played a crucial role in early human survival.
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Modern humans could have left Africa shortly after evolving, making it to India in tens of thousands of years.
This new research offers compelling proof that the naysayers were right. "Mrs" Ples was actually a "Mr".
New discoveries are changing archaeologists' ideas about the origins of our own species and our migration out of Africa. This fossil pushes Homo sapiens' African exodus date back by 50,000 years.
The story of where humans come from is growing as new evidence -- and new methods of analysis -- emerge all the time.
The evidence of a much earlier presence of humans in Indonesia was found more than 100 years ago. But only now has the age of the fossil teeth been accurately dated.
The brains of our ancestors grew larger and smarter thanks to an increase in the flow of blood to the brain
The two species mated 500,000 years ago, leaving a genetic mark to this day. This knowledge could help save them from extinction.
New research into how early humans spread across the world settles several long-running debates.
A new study suggests the first humans probably got to America from Siberia via the Pacific coast rather than through a corridor between two giant ice sheets, as previously thought.
Another look at a skull unearthed in Malaysian Borneo 60 years ago can shed light on the mystery of how early humans moved throughout Southeast Asia thousands of years ago.
Archaeological remains, traditional tribes and conflict among chimpanzees can tell us much about the history of human warfare.
A new study is rewriting our understanding of archaic humans and how they may have interacted with early humans.
Not all technologies are created equal. Researchers devised a new model to explain why, after eons of nothing much new, we sometimes see an explosion of innovation in the archaeological record.
The great grandfather of one of Europe's earliest modern humans had sex with Neanderthals.
Reconstructions of human evolution are prone to simple, overly-tidy scenarios. Our ancestors, for example, stood on two legs to look over tall grass, or began to speak because, well, they finally had something…
The theory that the Americas were populated by humans crossing from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge was first proposed as far back as 1590, and has been generally accepted since the 1930s. But genetic…
During the warm periods between ice ages stretching from 500,000 to 200,000 years ago, the southern parts of Britain were occupied by a species of ancient human, Homo heidelbergensis. These hunter-gatherers…
Ever since the discovery of the well preserved, nearly complete, 50,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton in a pit dug in a cave in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, southwest France, it has been long debated as to…
It should not be a surprise that East Africa was a hotbed of evolution, because over the last five million years everything about the landscape has changed. The extraordinary forces of plate tectonics…
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