A recent groundbreaking study has radically altered our understanding of human evolution. Homo sapiens, traditionally thought ...

Researchers discovered tools dating as far back as 11,500 years. The tools could be evidence of the earliest human settlement ...

These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species. Until ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest evidence of human presence in Sicily, dating back 16,500 years, at San Teodoro cave near ...

Administration has attempted to censor federal scientific data, cut billions in government spending on research ...

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

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 ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that may have shaped the course of human evolution ... Archaeological evidence from Homo sapiens sites shows the use of needles ...