An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...

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

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs ...