Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

Using advanced analysis based on full genome sequences, researchers from the University of Cambridge have found evidence that ...

Mar. 18, 2025 — Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence ... Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov ...

The tools, found in an area where an ancient rainforest once stood, push back the oldest known evidence of humans in similar environments by 80,000 years.

Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

Journal of Human Evolution 60, 117-123 (2011). James, S. R. Hominid use of fire in the lower and middle Pleistocene: a review of the evidence. Current Anthropology 30, 1-26 (1989). Jolly ...

Prof Chris Stringer, human evolution expert at the Museum, was happy to inform the creation of the reconstruction. 'The models are based on the very best scientific evidence we could put together.

A Pulitzer Prize winner considers how elements of the Scopes trial on teaching evolution may color modern debates, including ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. These dates are only approximate, as the tools have been dated from the environments they were found in. This is ...

The enlightened truth of the role of fire in human evolution. Illustration by Paul ... Archaeological evidence suggests that the controlled use of fire began with Homo erectus, who emerged nearly ...

The evidence at Gough's Cave points to a sophisticated culture of butchering and carving human remains,' says Dr Silvia Bello, a Museum scientist who investigates the evolution of human behaviour ...

The first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic Quina technology in East Asia has been uncovered in the Longtan site in Heqing county, ­Yunnan Province, southeastern ­Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) ...